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Idaho Topics: Triumph & Tragedy

Politics, Law, Government ● and the fight against nuclear waste in ● Salmon v Dams ● 1896 Deep Creek Murders and Diamond Jack Davis ● 1897 Legislation to protect bison ● Women’s suffrage in Idaho ● Castle Rock ● Forcing Idaho tribes into reservations ● ’s stance on isolationism ● Assassination of Gov. Frank Steunenberg and trial of Harry Orchard ● Stealing the capitol from Lewiston to Boise ● becoming the state of Idaho ● New Deal programs in Idaho: the CCC, FSA, and WPA

Environment ● Cecil Andrus and the White Clouds ● Reintroduction of wolves in Idaho ● Establishment of Crater of the Moon ● 1991 Coeur d’Alene tribe sues mining companies to clean up the Lake Coeur d’Alene ● Morley Nelson Birds of Prey Conservation Area ● Nuclear energy in Idaho ● The Carey Act ● Early 20th Century Water Projects across Idaho

Exploration ● Lewis and Clark ● Sacajawea ● Fur trapping in Idaho ● Silver City, Idaho ● The Gold Rush in IDaho ● Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad ● Early settlers in Idaho

War & Conflict ● Ruby Ridge Standoff ● Bannock War of 1878 ● Battle of White Bird Canyon ● Nez Perce War ● Sheepeater Indian War of 1879 and Chief Buffalo Horn ● Kootenai War of 1974: A bloodless war against the US government ● FIrst Idaho Regiment of military volunteers called into action in the ● The Snake War of the Shoshone Bannock ● Richard Butler and the Aryan Nation ● Coeur D’Alene miners uprising ● Idahoans in ● WWII in Idaho ○ Submarine training at Farragut ○ Morrison-Knudsen at Wake Island ○ JR Simplot potatoes ○ Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp ○ Basque immigration ● Idahoans in the ● Idahoans in the War

Idaho People ● Old Idaho Penitentiary inmates ● Chinese workers in Idaho ● James Pierson Beckwourth ● Ah Fong Chuck ● Carol Ryrie Brink ● Chief Joseph ● James Angleton, spycatcher at the CIA ● Joe Albertson ● JR Simplot ● Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television ● Evel Knievel ● Robert and Carrie Strahorn ● George L. Shoup ● Francena Kellogg Buck: advocate for suffrage and the temperance movement in Idaho ● Edward Pulaski: hero and inventor ● Vernon Baker: black World War II soldier ● Juanita Uberuaga Homraechea: Basque Dance ● Gretchen Kunigk Fraser: Olympic Skier ● Louise Shadduck: The Lioness of Idaho ● Frank Church

Disasters/Tragedies ● The Sunshine Silver Mine Accident ● Teton Dam Collapse ● Whitman Massacre of 1847 ● The Great Outbreak of the 1780s ● Native American children sent to Boarding Schools ● The Bear River Massacre of 1863 ● The Spokane Horse Massacre and Col. George Wright ● The Alexander Ward Massacre and closing of Fort Boise ● The Bunker Hill Mine Disaster ● The Big Blowup of 1910