An Idaho community history book

of the Council, Idaho area.

There once was a time when. . .

. . .millions of square miles of virgin wilderness offered opportunity to anyone with the raw ambition to exploit it. . .

. . .men and women found themselves in a life and death struggle thousands of miles from the nearest road, house, or farm. . .

. . .big dreams were shouldered into mountains to wring out their riches. . .

. . .the land was occupied by natives whose culture was so fundamentally different that it would never be reconciled with the whirlwind of European culture that defied its very foundation.

This book is about the infancy and childhood of a small community in west-central Idaho, and the human Landmarks that made it what it is today.

It is a story of some of the most dramatic changes in the history of mankind - when a person born into a world where steam locomotives were the fastest machines on earth would live to see a man walk on the moon.