2009-08, August 2009 (Murphy Hot Springs)

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  FEATURES

  Highway 95 Revisited

  by Les Tanner

  Our man afield travels upstate the old way, seeking out twists and turns the highway took before improvements began in 1960.

  Murphy Hot Springs—Spotlight City

  by Philip A. Homan

  This desert oasis far off the beaten track bears a rich history of gold, banditry, and horses.

  A Farmwife’s Tale

  by Geraldine Mathias

  Nora Stamm chronicled early 20th Century life near Blackfoot. Her memoir attests to the extraordinary effort required to farm, raise children, and survive back then.

  DEPARTMENTS

  Editorial: The Good Stuff, by Steve Bunk

  Portfolio: Faces from the Land; Two Decades of Chronicling Powwow Tradition, Reviewed by Kitty Delorey Fleischman

  A Road Not Taken: Our Way or the Highway; During the Depression, Grangeville Almost Got a Road It Didn’t Want, by Lori Palmer

  Bordello Tales: Madam Lake; When Boom Times Hit Ashton, Its Brothel Complex Lay Waiting, by Neal Wickham

  Silver Mining: Fire in the Hole; An Underground Mine Tour Revives Memories of the Real Thing, by Lowell Vanskike

  Reminiscence: The Threshing Machine; Seventy-five feet of Distance Would Do, by Bill Corbett

  Screenwriting: The Death of Innocence; Idaho Screenwriters Discover The Joy and Tyranny of the Script, by Sherry Cann

  Essay: Reflections on a Horse; An Unbroken Mare Sparks Musings on Horsemen Past, by Tony Jones

  Refugee Lives: Growing Again; Refugees Recover in Idaho’s Gardens, by Pat McCoy Rohleder

  Recipe Contest: Ratatouille, by Jayden MacArthur & Kyle Sullivan; and Zucchini Casserole, by Diana Sherman

  August Contributors

  IN THIS ISSUE!
  Ashton, Blackfoot, Boise, Grace, Grangeville, Highway 95, Murphy Hot Springs, Owyhees, Wallace