Vision of an Ancient Spectacle By Bruce Collier My bird dog Kyra and I have been here many times before. I should be contemplating the pheasants and the cover that hides them from us, but I’m always distracted
Straight to Canada Story and Photos by Stan Myers In circular searches, I made my way through thick brush and lodgepole, drawing ever closer to a point on my GPS. Finally, as I pushed through limbs and looked
Not long ago, we got an email at IDAHO magazine from Randy Orzalli, an appraiser of firearms and edged weapons in Sacramento, California. A retired Idaho outfitter in New Plymouth named Trent Bullock had received an old knife
High in the Lemhis Story and Photos by Ray Brooks When the lightly used road started looking a little soft for driving, I stopped beside the disheveled cabin of a long-ago miner. It was July 2019, and I
Old West Idaho Madams By Milana Marsenich After novelist and therapist Milana Marsenich was contracted to write the new nonfiction book, Idaho Madams, for Farcountry Press, she became fascinated by the infamous women she researched in Sandpoint, Lewiston,
A Shoshone Cultural Revival Story and Photos by Rod Miller What first drew me to a protected valley between high bluffs just northwest of Preston where the Bear River winds? I don’t recall but I have visited numerous
POW Camps in Idaho By John M. Larsen My eyes bugged out in wonder and alarm. The German soldiers crouched low, their weapons flashing as they advanced slowly toward me across the field east of the house. I
Surprise in the Belfrey By Gerald J. Funke On a warm Sunday afternoon, Max Rodriguez came into the sacristy of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Weiser after the Spanish Mass and sheepishly showed me, the pastor, a frayed
No Country for Codgers By Ray Brooks I had been warned about the road from Orogrande Summit southwest of Elk City to the old mining towns of Buffalo Hump. It was OK for about a quarter-mile after the
Fatal Encounters in 1869 By Mark Iverson and Jeff Wade Editor’s note: Boiseans Mark Iverson and Jeff Wade have dredged up some of the most rotten crimes and criminals in the city’s history for their new book, Murder
