This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Gem State.

The frontier towns of Idaho were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Serial killer Lyda Lewis poisoned her unsuspecting husbands to cash in on their life insurance. The Eddy and Splawn families created counterfeit U.S. gold pieces. And "Diamondfield" Jack Davis, a notorious killer, even shot a child's dog. From Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperados in the history of the Gem State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of Idaho introduces you to a state you thought you...

Here is the story of Idaho's power brokers, those well-known and those behind the scenes, and the story of Idaho politics up to 1988 - of well-known figures like Cecil Andrus, Robert Smylie, Frank Church, Jim MCclure, and many others - and the backroom players most Idahoans never heard of, like Lloyd Adams and Tom McCall. In this new edition, the author provides more than 100 notes updating and expanding on the original text.

The standard reference for detailed background information about Idaho politics.

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho s past both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include: Ezra Pound, native Idahoan and celebrated poet, who followed the slippery slope of socialism into full-on fascism, became a sycophant of Hitler and Mussolini, and eventually stood trial in the...