On the River’s Far Side By Alice Elison Speeding east along Highway 39 in the early hours of Sunday, June 17, 1979, we entered Rockford, which was fewer than fifteen minutes to our final destination of Blackfoot. My
In with the Old and New By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey On a clear blue day in the summer of 2018, I peered out the windows of a building in downtown Sandpoint and saw the city for the first time—metaphorically,
And the People of the Little Lost River Valley By Anna Sermon The wind in Howe often blows from the west, as it did on October 18, 2012, when the dance hall-bar-restaurant and the store, storage barn, and
Boom to Bust and Back Again By Mary Terra-Berns On a beautiful sky-blue but slightly blustery day last June, I flew at two thousand seven hundred feet from Coeur d’Alene to Missoula, Montana with my friend LaDonna Beaumont
The Pros and Cons of Popularity Story and Photos by Bruce Bash After two decades of publication, IDAHO magazine has begun to revisit some of our Spotlight City selections of previous years. Here’s a new look at Idaho
From Stage Stop to Scientific Site By Ray Brooks My quest to follow the 1864 route of the Reynolds-to-Silver-City stage line suddenly ended in several bangs. I was far into the Owyhee Mountains on a rough, narrow, seldom-traveled
A Town Tailored to Its History By Amy McClellan My family has a long-standing personal connection to Roberts—a town of about six hundred and fifty residents fifteen miles north of our home in Idaho Falls—through our frequent visits
The Pull of Home By Miranda R. Carter The magazine first visited Moscow as a Spotlight City in our April 2002 issue. We figured it was time to have another look. It was one of those nights that
A Town and Its Ghostly Sibling By Eloise Kraemer I have a long association with Samuels and Sam, two sibling communities that are namesakes of the same man. My mother was born and raised in Sandpoint, and for
Big Views, Big Mountains By Kathy Corgatelli NeVille When I was growing up on our family ranch east of Darlington in the Big Lost River Valley, I never gave much thought to Leslie, a little settlement a few
