Category: Local History

The scope of the western migration to the American West in the mid 1800s is mind-blowing.  And most amazing of all is the fact that… Read More

Looking for a chance to visit some by-gone era? Visit Almo’s Tracy General Store. They’ve been in continuous operation  since 1894, serving the area for… Read More

The horse-riding citizen(s) of the Oakley Valley chose July 24, 1946 to run the first organized race which was run on a “flat straight-away track… Read More

Editors Note:Since 1947, Oakley’s Pioneer Days have been promoted and sponsored by a group known as the Oakley Vigilantes. Originally organized as a riding club,… Read More

As Featured in 2023 Editionof Discover City of Rocks. View the Latest Edition > The City of Rocks National Reserve and adjacent Castle Rocks State… Read More

As Featured in 2025 Editionof Discover City of Rocks. View the Latest Edition > Thousands of visitors come through Almo every year. All of them… Read More

Generations of kids grew up dreaming of becoming a cowboy in the romantic Old West. On TV or on the silver screen, the cowboy life… Read More

Oakley stone is the trade name of a building stone that occurs in the mountains south of Oakley. More properly known as Rocky Mountain quartzite… Read More

Much of the Intermountain West was settled by homesteaders, who claimed their claims to land from the federal government in the late 1800s and early… Read More

In the fall of 1907 State Engineer D.W. Ross and other officials suddenly took note of the fact that the Southside pumping project was in… Read More

John Richard “Jack” Simplot, born in Dubuque, Iowa, January 4, 1909, was only a year old when he arrived with his family in Burley.  In… Read More

By 1942 the United States needed places to house German and Italian prisoners. Government officials  decided to construct prisoner-of-war camps in rural areas so that… Read More

“Anyone living in the United States during the mid-twentieth century would have heard about the African adventures of Tarzan. From the time the first story,… Read More

Grains and hay were the main crops on the Minidoka Project, as they were in other parts of Cassia County. In 1915 the alfalfa crop… Read More

Japanese-Americans from Washington and Oregon were sent to a center in Idaho. Officially named the Minidoka Relocation Center—a confusing name since it was located in… Read More

In 1872 a twenty-three-year-old plant breeder named Luther Burbank found a single seed ball growing on the vine of one of his Early Rose potatoes.… Read More

Synopsis of the book “A Flood Cannot Happen Here”, written by the book’s author, Kathleen Hedberg Most people in Cassia County were not worried about… Read More

For many years the old Y-Dell Bowling Alley operated at the intersection of present-day Highways 30 and 24 on Burley’s east side.  The Y-Dell was… Read More