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Twin Falls and Magic Valley History PEOPLE OTHER PRINT RESOURCES Twin Falls and Six Decades Back – Charles S. Walgamott Polk City Directories* {979.637 HISTORY WALGAMOTT} Twin Falls High School Yearbooks* Magic Valley Bucking the Tide by Henry James Kingsbury {979.637 BIOGRAPHY PERRINE} Idaho Blue Book* History Families of the Salmon Tract and Some of Their Twin Falls Police Dockets History by James L. Holloway Justice Docket – 1915-1925* {979.637 SALMON TRACT HOLLOWAY} TF City Docket – 1911-1937* Twin Falls County Pioneers by James L. Regional Journals/Magazines Holloway Idaho Landscapes* {979.637 SALMON TRACT HOLLOWAY} Idaho Magazine* Idaho Yesterdays* Gifts of Heritage: Pioneer Portraits edited by Journal of the West* Donna Scott and ZoeAnn Shaub Oregon Historical Quarterly* {979.637 HISTORY GIFTS} Overland Journal (OCTA)* Pacific Northwest Quarterly* We Sagebrush Folks – Annie Pike Greenwood Snake River Echoes* {917.96 GREENWOOD} Western Historical Quarterly* Buckskin and Smoke by Anna Hansen Hayes Want to know why the downtown {979.637 HISTORY HAYES} ELECTRONIC RESOURCES streets are set at an angle or who the Diamondfield: Finding the Real Jack Davis Historical Photograph Collection “Homeless Twenty” were? If you’re by Max C. Black (Access inside the Library) interested in knowing more about the {921 DAVIS} Clarence E. Bisbee city and region we call home, start O.A. (Gus) Kelker Diamondfield Jack: A Study in Frontier Justice Idaho Power – Shoshone Falls with one of the items in this brochure. by David H. Grover ITD Perrine Bridge Construction From police dockets to photographs {921 DAVIS} to portraits of pioneers who settled Twin Falls Newspapers 1904-Present this area, you’re sure to find Lady Bluebeard: The True Story of Love and (Access inside the Library or online at Marriage, Death and Flypaper newspaper.twinfallspubliclibrary.org) something to satisfy your historical by William C. Anderson curiosity. {364.1523 SOUTHARD ANDERSON} Titles denoted with * indicate items available in Created by your Twin Scattered Graves by William Kestler, John the Idaho/Pacific Northwest Collection. These Meyers, and James L. Holloway Falls Public Library items are unavailable for checkout, but may be {979.637 CEMETERIES} Reference Department. examined inside the Library. TWIN FALLS CITY & COUNTY The Knowledge Box: Country Schoolhouses to Ruins of a World: Chinese Gold Mining at the Current Schools of Twin Falls County, Idaho Mon-Tung Site in the Snake River Canyon In the Middle and on the Edge: The Twin Falls by Mareda and Cecil Wright by Ron James Region of Idaho by Jim Gentry {979.637 SCHOOLS WRIGHT} {979.637 MINING JAMES} {979.637 HISTORY GENTRY} A History of the Twin Falls Canal Company, Kimberly, Idaho History (Twin Falls County)* Tales of the Tract: The Beginnings of Twin 1905-2005 by J. Howard Moon by Bessie M. Shrontz Roberts-Wright Falls, Idaho and the “Magic” Valley {979.637 IRRIGATION MOON} {IR 979.637 KIMBERLY KIMBERLY} by James F. Varley {979.637 HISTORY VARLEY} A Forest of Wormwood: Sagebrush, Water, History of Hansen, Idaho, 1904-1984 and Idaho’s Twin Falls Canal Company by Frances Harris Twin Falls Centurybook, 1904-2004: by Niels Sparre Nokkentved {979.637 HANSEN HARRIS} Celebrating the Twin Falls, Idaho Centennial {979.637 IRRIGATION} by Mary J. Inman Buhl, Idaho: A Century of Stories: Buhl {979.637 HISTORY INMAN} Schemes and Dreams in the New West: Centennial, 1906-2006 by James H. Barker Promoting Idaho’s Irrigated Landscape* {979.637 BUHL BARKER} Twin Falls (Images of America Series) by by Josie Jane Fretwell Elizabeth Egleston Giraud { IR 979.637 HISTORY FRETWELL} Jerome (Images of America Series) {979.637 HISTORY GIRAUD} by Linda Helms {979.635 HELMS} Miracles in the Desert: Essays Celebrating Gooding County Roots and Branches, 1989 Twin Falls Idaho, and 100 Years on a High {979.636 GOODING} Desert Plain, 1904-2004 by Bonnie Dodge {979.637 HISTORY DODGE} Wendell: Hub City of the Magic Valley: 75 Years, 1909-1984 by JaNene Johnson Buckway Tribute to the Past, Legacy for the Future {979.636 BUCKWAY} {979.637 BUSINESS TRIBUTE} Shoshone and Her People {979.634 SHOSHONE} Territorial Centennial: Twin Falls County, MAGIC VALLEY 1863-1963 {979.637 CENTENNIAL TWIN FALLS} Camp Rupert: Prisoners of War (POW) History of the Magic Valley by Larry Quinn Concentration Camp {979.637 HISTORY QUINN} The First Hundred Years: A History of the {940.547 CAMP} Twin Falls Area from 1811-1911 Then and Now in Southern Idaho {979.637 SCHOOLS TWIN} Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp by Virginia Ricketts by Teresa Tamura {979.63 RICKETTS} Twin Falls County: A Look at Idaho {940.5472 TAMURA} Architecture by Patricia Wright Shoshone Falls: The Magnificent Spectacle {979.637 HISTORICAL SITES WRIGHT} Surviving Minidoka by Virginia Ricketts {940.5472 SURVIVING} {979.637 FALLS RICKETTS} Twin Falls Up-to-Date: Describing Its Resources, Enterprises, and Opportunities, and Relocation Center Diary Ghosts of Idaho’s Magic Valley: History and the Men Behind Them by James Ivie by Arthur Meredith Kleinkopf Lore by Andy Weeks {979.637 HISTORY IVIE} {940.5472 KLEINKOPF} {133.1097 WEEKS} .
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