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Did Jesse James live in Idaho?
Did legendary outlaw Jesse James ever call Malad his home? The story has been part of the Palmer family folklore for over a century. They say the 19th century bank robber from Missouri married one of their relatives in 1869… Read More >
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History Of Malad Valley
The Welsh history of Malad Valley began in Wales in the 1840s when missionaries for the fledgling Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints were sent to the British Isles. Dan Jones, a famous LDS missionary, converted hundreds of Welsh people… Read More >
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The Evans Co-op Block
The story of the Evans Co-op actually began in 1865 in a one-room log house on Deep Creek, near where the Masonic Lodge now stands on Bannock Street. Malad’s Mormon pioneers had earlier built a bishop’s tithing storehouse, paying their… Read More >
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Make The Short Trip To Samaria. It’s Worth Your Time
Remove yourself from life’s daily rush. Take a trip to Samaria- it’s a stroll back to a simpler, slower-paced time. It may not be Mayberry, but it’s pretty darn close.Located about nine miles southwest of Malad, Samaria was once the… Read More >
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Rebirth of a Cokeville School – The Schoolhouse Inn
Cokeville’s Rural Schools From 1908 to 1918, homesteaders claimed large portions of the valley, and the school system struggled to educate the student-aged children in the outlying areas. But in the ensuing years, “many who had come seeking good farms… Read More >
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A Tale of Two Counties: the Mini-Cassia Area
South Central Idaho’s Magic Valley covers an immense area, stretching from Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln and Twin Falls counties in the west, across Minidoka and Cassia counties, nearly to American Falls in the east. Magic Valley is particularly associated with the… Read More >
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Visionary Frank Riblett- “The ‘Magician’ Of Magic Valley”
According to Wikipedia,”Magic Valley” refers to the early twentieth-century construction of Milner and Minidoka Dams and their series of irrigation canal systems on the Snake River, encompassing Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls counties along the… Read More >
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Eugene Matthews and The Last of the Really Good $28.00 Cars
“Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” “What this country needs is a really good $28.00 car.” Wait a minute, who said anything about a $28.00 car? Just ask Eugene Matthews of… Read More >
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Early History of the Settlement of Lewiston
After Richmond was settled in 1859, Franklin in 1860, and Clarkston in 1864, “All the most desirable locations on the streams in Richmond and in the other settlements of the Valley, had been taken. Naturally (the new settlers) were forced… Read More >
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Smithfield Implement- A Legendary Smithfield Icon
We’ve all gone through the routine: You need an item, so you scurry all over town from one mass box store retailer to another, looking in vain. Despite their massive inventories, you can’t always find what you need when you… Read More >
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