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Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman’s Remarkable Horse$27.95 ISBN 9718321-0-2 Black Canyon Communications Todd Shallat, editor In Idaho’s Magic Valley, water transformed a desert into a significant agricultural region. Here fur trappers encountered Snake River Native Americans, Oregon Trail emigrants suffered deprivation and death, miners rushed for placer gold, and an ancestor of the modern horse was found in a world-class fossil trove that would become a national monument site. This richly illustrated, full color book traces Magic Valley life through every facet of the western experience. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book of the Year award 8 x 9.5, 240 pages, color photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Trolley: Boise Valley’s Electric Road$12.00 ISBN 9718321-1-0 Black Canyon Communications Casner and Kiesig The history of Southwest Idaho’s electric railroad also tells the story of valley life at the beginning of the 20th century. Entertainment, business, school, local politics, even how we buried our dead — all revolved around the remarkable trollies and interurban. These quaint machines in old photographs were powerful engines of change. Nick Kasner and Valeri Kiesig have given us a warm and nostalgic reminder of those days long ago when life in Idaho’s Treasure Valley focused around the interurban line. Trolley reminds us that our grandparents knew what they were doing when they used a transit system to link our communities. H. Brent Coles 9 x 7, 84 pages, 62 photographs and illustrations, map [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Equus Evolves: The Story of the Hagerman Horse$15.00 ISBN 9718321-2-9 Black Canyon Communications Idaho’s Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument opens a window into the earth to reveal an extraordinary trove of fossils. The discovery there of the modern horse’s ancestor reveals how life has persisted and evolved against incredible odds. And the story of how a natural wonder became a national monument sheds light on the development of modern paleontology and wilderness ecology. 8 x 9.5 72 pages, full color photographs and illustrations [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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