Boise

Boise

by Frank Thomason
Boise

Boise

by Frank Thomason

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Overview

On a high-desert plateau of the Snake River Plain in southwestern Idaho, Boise, the "City of Trees," began as an encampment on the Oregon Trail along the Boise River. Natives were soon after displaced, and by 1864, a town site was platted north of the river, abutting the garrison at Fort Boise. Early settlers found livelihoods as merchants, supplying miners in the Boise Basin, where gold was discovered in 1862. Boiseans experienced difficulty accepting a municipal government and had to wrest territorial status from Lewiston in northern Idaho. Through decades of irrigation and commerce, they grappled with isolation and a scarcity of goods and amenities, which produced a remarkably resilient and vibrant population. From the railroad in 1880s to statehood in 1890, the interurban, and the airplane, rocket, and computer chip-making eras, Boise continues to grow and thrive.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738559896
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 04/13/2009
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,060,541
Product dimensions: 9.14(w) x 6.56(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

This compilation is based extensively on archival photographs, especially from the Idaho State Historical Society's Library and Archives Division, as well as private sources. Author Frank Thomason, Ph.D., a trained historian, is a weekly newspaper publisher and editor in west Ada County and a third-generation area resident.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 An Oasis in the Desert 9

2 Business and Public Buildings of Old Boise 29

3 Historic Homes 45

4 Out and About: Living and Working in Old Boise 61

5 Trial and Punishment 83

6 Education and Medicine 95

7 Chinese and Other Minorities 109

Bibliography 127

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