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Old 04-28-2010, 09:16 AM
 
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Info from TMA:
Bert Russell books:
Swiftwater People and Hardships and Happy Times.
Amazon.com: Swiftwater People: Lives of Old Timers on the Upper St. Joe & St. Maries Rivers (Oral History Series) (9780930344023): Bert Russell: Books

(Hardships seems to be out of print.)

Thanks, TMA!
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Old 05-02-2010, 03:52 PM
 
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Here's a favorite DVD of mine, Sandpoint at the North End of the Long Bridge. Great 2-hour documentary about Sandpoint history and scenery. You can get it through Sandpointonline.com:
Sandpoint General Store - Northern Idaho books, music CDs, huckleberry goods
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:27 AM
 
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Seaplanes from Couer D Alene by tom emerson
Steamboats in the timber, Ruby El Hult
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Old 05-05-2010, 07:53 PM
 
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The Gazette Record published 2 books with a bunch of pictures all about the St. Maries/St Joe river area. Will try to find mine and get the name
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Old 05-07-2010, 10:47 PM
 
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Fred, thanks for the titles!

Here's something a little bit different: Barbara McQueen, Steve McQueen's widow, wrote a book in 2006 about her years with McQueen, The Last Mile. It has really interesting tidbits about his ranch in Ketchum, and his dreams of retiring there. I'm a McQueen fan, so I think that should go on our list! There's also a great story about how he got kicked out of Whitefish, MT ...and if we can squeeze Wyoming into the NW category, the chapter about his last film, Tom Horn, is fascinating.
Amazon.com: Steve McQueen The Last Mile (9781854432261): Barbara McQueen, Marshall Terrill: Books (There is a somewhat expensive coffee-table version, and a less expensive hardcover version.)

If you guys like McQueen, you should also watch the DVD "Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool" (a special included in the Bullitt DVD set) where he is reported as having said, not long before he died, that the only thing he wanted to do was to take his collections and go live in Idaho...
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Old 05-28-2010, 09:57 PM
 
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Here's something for the NW book shelf! Remember Calamity Jane popping up on the Trivia thread? Here's a good source:
Amazon.com: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend (9780806135915): James D. Mclaird: Books
And the article in the Spokesman-Review that featured the book:
Calamity Jane: Part cheers, mostly booze - Spokesman.com - Feb. 26, 2006
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Old 07-28-2010, 12:46 AM
 
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New novel about the Big Burn/Big Blowout to be published Aug.17!
John McGregor's West of the Gospel reevaluates a person who seems to have been forgotten by history, Thaddeus Roe, and focuses on the fire in Avery:

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First-time novelist W. John MacGregor has long been a student of Pacific Northwest history, and the mystery and confusion surrounding the events in Avery in August of 1910 fascinated him from the first time he heard the story. “Here you had probably one of the most complicated and scandalous political hot-potatoes in the nation’s pre-war period,” says MacGregor, “and nobody involved—not the fledgling Forest Service, the newspapers, the sheriff’s office, nor the officers of the 25th Infantry—can tell the same story about what happened in Avery. It’s more bizarre than The Usual Suspects. Yet it all gets swept conveniently under the carpet. By everyone.”
Read more here! New Novel Explores 1910 “Big Burn” Mystery About the "Hero" of Avery, Idaho | Earth Times News
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Old 07-28-2010, 04:46 PM
 
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Just found my St. Maries Books, they are called:

St. Joe Memories, Vol. 1 (1800's to 1950)
St. Joe Memories, Vol. 2 (1950 to 1975)

They are pretty nice, hundreds of pics. I like them because I grew up there and know a bunch of the people and families in the photos.

I guess you could contact the Gazette record if you want them, can't find them online except for used on Amazon
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Old 07-28-2010, 04:52 PM
 
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I'm about 1/2 way through this one Amazon.com: Idaho loners : hermits, solitaries, and individualists (9780960356652): Cort…

My aunt bought it for me at the Craters of the Moon Visitor Center.

I just read The Big Burn, after seeing it recommended here. Enjoyed it a lot.
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Old 08-24-2010, 11:30 PM
 
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I was surprised when I got my new issue of True West (September 2010) in the mail--it has an article about the Ice Dam across the Clark Fork and the Ice Age Floods from Lake Missoula that shaped the scablands of WA and the Palouse! "Ice Age Flood Trails" by Candy Moulton. I think the author could have focused more on Idaho (of course!), but even so, it's refreshing to see anything about ID in True West!

I picked up some nice books about local history in Sandpoint and Hope during our vacation--I'll list them here soon.
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