Excerpt from The History of Idaho The endeavor has been to give a statement of the operations of the people since Territorial organisation up to statehood in l 890, with a brief reference to some of the legislative enactments at each session, the times, where held, names of all members, financial con dition of the Territory from time to time, with frequent accounts of the progress made by the people in the settlement of the coun try, including the varions modes of transportation, mining, farm ing, irrigation, kind of land, area of territory by counties, stock raising, Indian wars, building of railroads, schools, churches, etc. In fact, most everything of importance connected with Territorial days has been at least touched upon. The aim has been to give a brief history of the most important events connected with the set tlement and development of the country through Territorial days more than twenty-seven years - and at the same time not to have the book so voluminous as to be cumbersome to either old people or children; and also to give a brief review of the progress made by the people of Idaho since statehood up to 1909, with a brief view of the outlook for the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.