Product Description: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressTwo hundred years ago, Meriwether Lewis led the Corps of Discovery across the Continental Divide and down into the Salmon River country of what is now Idaho.  There, in a mountain meadow, the explorers me the Mountain (Lemhi) Shoshoni...read more

Product Description: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressHistorian Brigham Madsen has devoted muchof his career to telling the story of the Shoshoni.  The trimbe once occupied a huge region that included portions of Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and Montana...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exploring the Great Salt Lake, The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50

Product Description: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressTells the story of broken agreements, diminishing food supplies and of a proud, independent people who refused the blandishments of white civilization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "In the 1990s I have seen the rise of anti-intellectualism within Mormonism, including but not limited to BYU, to a degree that I would not have believed possible thirty years earlier. Perhaps those earlier beliefs that all truth was essentially harmonious were naive, but I see the new anti-intellectualism as driven by a fear fo losing adherents that seems to be a revelation of profound uneasiness on the part of Mormon leaders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Brigham Henry Roberts was born in England in 1857. Among his other achievements, he was president of the LDS First Quorum of Seventy and Assistant Church Historian. His numerous books include: (historical) A Comprehensive History of the Church, Joseph Smith: The Prophet-Teacher, The Life of John Taylor, Outlines of Ecclesiastical History, and (theological) A New Witness for God, the Mormon Doctrine of Deity, and the Seventy's Course in Theology all of which are considered authoritative, and for which Roberts earned the epithet, "Defender of the Faith...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressDedicated to a people who faced starvation and destitution as white emigrating settlers continued to flock through his homeland, Pocatello was committed to preserving the life of his people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In late 1866, when Salt Lake City attorney Robert Baskin looked down at the mutilated body of a client, he resolved he would do all in his power to increase federal authority in Utah to ensure that perpetrators of such crimes would not go unpunished...read more

Product Description: The life of Patrick Edward Connor serves as a half-century slice of western American history. After leaving New York City, where he had arrived at the age of twelve as a poor Irish immigrant, the nineteen-year-old youth joined the U...read more