Inventing Idaho The Gem State's Eccentric Shape

As Idaho's State Historian, the question author Keith C. Petersen heard most was, "How did Idaho get such a strange shape?" In "Inventing Idaho," he answers that popular inquiry, breaking the state's intriguing border story into six sections covering the fascinating events and people involved in creating the peculiar borders--boundaries that have held enormous influence on much of Idaho's political, economic, and cultural history.

About the author

Keith Petersen was Idaho's State Historian and Associate Director of the Idaho State Historical Society, and his fascination with history has been expressed throughout his career. The author of numerous articles and books about the Northwest, he is the only person to have twice received the Idaho Book Award. This is his fourth book with Washington State University Press, where he formerly served as acquisitions editor. Petersen received the first annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities from the Idaho Humanities Council in 1986, the Presidential Medallion from Lewis-Clark State College in 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Idaho in 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Keith C. Petersen, Keith C Petersen
• Publisher: Washington state univ.press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2022
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780874224184
• ISBN: 978-0-87422-418-4
• Pages: 240
• Subjects: History - U.S.; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State & Provincial; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century