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	Idaho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Idaho was subsequently part of Oregon Territory and later Washington Territory, fur trading and missionary work attracting the first settlers to the region.
		Idaho is an important agricultural state, producing nearly one third of the potatoes grown in the United States.
		As of 2004, the population of Idaho was estimated to be 1,393,262.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idaho (1228 words)

	Idaho Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally created by areas from existing territories, Most of the area west of the continental divide was formerly part of the Washington Territory, whereas most of the area east of the continental divide had been part of the Dakota Territory.
		In 1864, the Montana Territory was organized from the northeastern section of the territory east of the Bitteroot Range.
		The territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Idaho on July 3, 1890.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idaho_Territory (229 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Idaho
		Idaho is one of the Pacific Slope States, lying like a roughly shaped rudder, and stretching 485 miles south from the boundary separating the United States from Canada, with its base extending east from Oregon to Wyoming.
		Idaho was admitted as the forty-fourth state of the Union on 3 July, 1890, having previously adopted its constitution in November, 1889.
		The main event in the political history of Idaho was the disenfranchisement of the Mormons in 1883, but their disclaimer of polygamy in 1897 led to the restoration of citizenship to a large number of their body.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07627a.htm (2951 words)

	Idaho Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The territory was officially organized on March 4, 1863 by Act of Congress, and signed into lawby President Abraham Lincoln.
		It was originally created by areas fromexisting territories, Most of the area west of the continentaldivide was formerly part of the Washington Territory,whereas most of the area east of the continental divide had been part of the Dakota Territory.
		In 1864, the MontanaTerritory was organized from the northeastern section of the territory east of the Bitteroot Range.
	www.therfcc.org /idaho-territory-96536.html (183 words)

	Idaho Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		4 March 1863 The Idaho Territory was established.
		1864 Boise became the capital of the Idaho territory.
		1868 Wyoming became a separate territory from the Idaho territory.
	www.worldhistory.com /idaho_timeline.htm (623 words)

	Idaho History - Dirk Kempthorne, The Governor of the State of Idaho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		State of Columbia proposed by the Idaho legislature in a petition to Congress, to include all the lands in western Montana, northern Idaho, and eastern Washington.
		Idaho population: 14,999 later census figure shows 17,804 as Utah-Idaho border was not clearly established.
		Historical Society of Idaho Pioneers forms to collect and preserve a reliable history of the early settlement of the territory.
	www.gov.idaho.gov /fyi/history/1863-89.htm (894 words)

	Idaho Mining Association : History
		The history of mining in Idaho is as colorful as the metal that first drew thousands of fortune seekers to the Gem State.
		In 1863, the Idaho Territory was created and the tent city of Lewiston became the capital.
		By 1863, Idaho City had a population of 6,200 and surpassed Portland as the largest city in the Northwest.
	www.idahomining.org /history.html (926 words)

	Idaho Timeline
		Territorial Legislature on December 7 passes a resolution moving the capital from Lewiston to Boise.
		Idaho admitted to the Union as the 43rd state on July 3, signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison.
		Idaho Technical Institute in Pocatello redesignated the University of Idaho Southern Branch.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/events/idaho_timeline.htm (5444 words)

	J.A. Harrington Collection, Idaho State University Library
		The history of Idaho and the economy, irrigation, educational institutions, land grants and communications of the state.
		Idaho when she was a part of Washington in 1863 and now 1915." The author relates in the first person singular...
		Sterling, E. Report by Sterling, Territorial Prison Commissioner, to the Council and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho...
	www.isu.edu /library/special/mc012.htm (2932 words)

	Idaho Counties, Idaho
		The Idaho Legislature, first territorial and later state, divided and subdivided the original four counties until in 1919, the state had its present lineup of 44 counties.
		The county seat of Ada County, Idaho, is Boise.
		The county seat of Idaho County, Idaho, is Grangeville.
	www.ohwy.com /id/i/idcounty.htm (788 words)

	the Big Sky Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome to ‘Abyssinia’
		Idaho Territory was a geographic impossibility from the day of its birth.
		Even in 1863, at the time of the territory’s inception, Idaho’s population was shifting rapidly eastward, across the continental divide to the mining camps on the upper Missouri.
		Judge Sidney Edgerton, a former Ohio congressman, unable to proceed to Lewiston because of the approach of winter, soon learned that the governor of Idaho had snubbed him by assigning him to the faraway judicial district lying east of the divide, even,though he was, after all, the territorial chief justice.
	bigskyblog.com /?p=148 (1770 words)

	Larry Craig, US Senator from Idaho: Idaho State History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the territorial election of July 8, 1861, Shoshone County cast the largest vote in Washington, and in 1862 the Salmon River gold rush made Florence by far the biggest community in the territory.
		Although the Idaho Organic Act often is referred to as an act of March 3, 1863, President Lincoln approved the Idaho measure on March 4, not on March 3 (the date given in the statutes).
		After the Idaho act passed the Senate as amended, and after the House concurred in the Senate amendments (of name and boundaries), and before the bill could be signed, an enrolled copy had to be prepared.
	www.senate.gov /~craig/id_history.htm (2776 words)

	Idaho Observer: Better Days?
		In the Washington territorial elections of July 14, 1862, the mining counties elected candidates who supported Walla Walla's preference, and opposed the Lewiston and Olympia plans to set aside a new mining territory.
		Gilson's main contribution to Idaho's progress was to steal the entire territorial treasury, which amounted to $41,062.
		For some years, though, no one except the territorial secretary knew what most of the laws were, because the published volumes were held in San Francisco awaiting payment of the printing bill.
	www.proliberty.com /observer/20030423.htm (2138 words)

	Historical Map Collection
		UNITED STATES 1.1 - Map of the Trans-Mississippi Territory of the United States during the period of the American Fur Trade as conducted from St.
		IDAHO 2.22 - Map showing the general route of the branch line of the Northern Pacific Rail Road from Lake Pend d'Oreille across the Cascade Mtns.
		The Idaho map is on p.132 and 133, on p.131 is a list of ``Physical Features of Hawaii," on p.134 Idaho retail sales map and table on ``Idaho Counties Business and Manufactures.") - Couer d'Alene mining district.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/map.htm (16540 words)

	Bartholomew 1857 Map
		Between 1853 and 1859 Idaho was divided between the Oregon and Washington territories.
		It was then attached to Washington until it was organized separately as the Idaho Territory in 1863.
		Originally the Nebraska Territory comprised 351,558 square miles, but by 1863 the organization of the Colorado and Idaho (including the states of Montana and Wyoming) territories had reduced Nebraska almost to its present dimensions.
	www.cprr.org /Museum/Maps/Bartholomew_1857.html (1008 words)

	Antique Maps and Prints of the Historic Territory of Idaho.
		The Territory is drained by the Snake river and its tributaries; the Bruneau, Boisé, Weiser, Salmon, Clearwater, Payette and other smaller streams.
		It is navigable for a considerable distance within and upon the borders of Idaho for light-draft vessels.
		Most of the gold is found in the quartz mines of Idaho, Boisé and Alturas counties, and there are placer diggings along the headwaters of the Salmon and Clearwater.
	www.antiquemapsandprints.com /usa-idaho.htm (975 words)

	Idaho Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1868 the areas east of the 111th were made part of the newly created Wyoming Territory.
		Idaho Governor (http://www2.state.id.us/gov/fyi/history/1863-89.htm) timeline of events in the Idaho
		Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Territories of Washington and Idaho and the State of Oregon for the Year of 1870
	www.freeglossary.com /Idaho_Territory (334 words)

	SUPREME COURT OF IDAHO
		Idaho was made a territory in 1860 and the first Justices of the Territorial Supreme Court were appointed by President Abraham Lincoln.
		For the convenience of litigants, the Idaho Supreme Court is one of the few "circuit riding" supreme courts in the country, and holds terms of court in Boise, Coeur d'Alene, Moscow, Lewiston, Pocatello, Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Caldwell and Twin Falls.
		The opinions of the Supreme Court are published in the Idaho Reports, the official publication of the Court, and also in the Pacific Reporter series together with the opinions of other western states.
	www.isc.idaho.gov /supreme.htm (1233 words)

	Idaho City historic town \| cemetery \| ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Idaho City is one fampous mining camp that has refused to die and instead has prospered into the thriving community that it is today.
		In 1863, Idaho City had a propulation of six thousand and was being seriously considered for the territorial capital.
		It lost out, however, and in 1864 the territorial capital was moved to Boise City from Lewinston.
	www.ghosttowngallery.com /htme/idahocity.htm (275 words)

	Idaho Statehood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Then, on November 5, 1889, the citizens of Idaho Territory ratified the constitution by a vote of 12,398 to 1,773.
		By moving the site of the university to Moscow in 1889, north Idaho’s demands for secession were pacified and most northerners resigned themselves to their inclusion in the new state of Idaho.
		Idaho was born out of the determination of citizens more committed to public unity than to political diversity; more dedicated to high ideals than to geographical rivalries.
	www.senatorhill.com /articles/statehood.htm (450 words)

	Masonic History in Idaho
		Until March 3, 1863, when the Idaho Territory was created, part of what is now Idaho, belonged to Washington Territory.
		Idaho City became the center of population of the new Idaho Territory, which position of prominence it held for many years.
		Between 1865 and 1867 a movement originating with Idaho Lodge No. 35 gave consideration to the formation of a Grand Lodge in the Idaho territory.
	www.eaglerock19.org /history.html (770 words)

	RRT: Pg47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The northern boundary of Utah Territory was set at the 42nd Parallel, which had been the northern edge of Mexico at the time Spain gave up any claims north of this line in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819.
		The precise location on the ground of this boundary was a contentious issue, as most of the Mormon settlers in southeastern Idaho either believed they were, or wished they were, living in Utah (or Deseret), which was defined to included the drainage basin of the Bear River.
		In the southern part of this country, particularly along the Bear River valley, is an extent of fertile country, and it is estimated that over 3,000 persons are settled here who refuse to pay taxes to this (Idaho) Territory, but pay both taxes and tithes to Utah...
	imnh.isu.edu /digitalatlas/geog/rrt/part3/chp6/47.htm (343 words)

	Idaho Territory - Biocrawler definition:Idaho Territory - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Idaho Territory - Biocrawler definition:Idaho Territory - Biocrawler
		Idaho Governor (http://www2.state.id.us/gov/fyi/history/1863-89.htm) timeline of events in the Idaho Territory
		Idaho State Univ. document (http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/geog/explore/essay.pdf) (PDF) on origin of name "Idaho" and how Idaho became territory
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Idaho_Territory (309 words)

	History - Oregon Troops
		Expedition from Fort Boles to Salmon Falls, Idaho Territory, and skirmishes August 27-October 5, 1864.
		Expedition from Camp Lyon, Idaho Territory, to Malheur River, Ore., and skirmish July 2-13, 1865.
		Duty in District of Oregon by Detachments at Fort Vancouver, Fort Klamath, Fort Yamhill, Fort Steilacoom, Fort Dalles, Fort Walls Walls, Colville, Fort Hoskins and Fort Boles, Idaho Territory, covering Boles and Snake River Country and the Owyhee Mines from Indian Raids.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unortr.htm (795 words)

	Today in History: March 4
		Part of the Louisiana Purchase, Idaho was visited by Lewis and Clark in 1805.
		The 1866 discovery of gold in Idaho and the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1869 brought many new people to the territory, including Chinese laborers who came to work the mines.
		When President Benjamin Harrison signed the 1890 law admitting Idaho to the Union, the population was 88,548.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar04.html (1447 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Idaho territory
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Idaho territory
		With the discovery of gold in Idaho it became increasingly difficult for administrators in Olympia, the capital of Washington Territory, to govern...
		Search for books about your topic, "Idaho territory"
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=Idaho+territory (99 words)

	Dirk Kempthorne, The Governor of the State of Idaho
		It is my honor to serve with you, the people of Idaho.
		Governor Dirk Kempthorne today told members of Congress that they must ensure that the Idaho National Guard has the equipment it needs to carry out its mission during natural disasters at home and maintain a battle-ready sharpness after its deployment to Iraq.
		Governor Dirk Kempthorne today announced that more than 1,700 members of the Idaho National Guard’s 116th Brigade Combat Team who have been serving in Iraq will begin their demobilization at Fort Lewis, Washington on or around October 23.
	gov.idaho.gov (250 words)

	Kootenai County Idaho Genealogy
		Idaho County Records on Microfilm at the Idaho State Library and Archives
		By 1924 Idaho was under the jurisdiction of the Spokane office of the Bureau of Immigration.
		The port of entry was at Eastport, Idaho.
	www.kindredtrails.com /ID_Kootenai.html (472 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Capitol Building at Boise, Idaho
		MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Capitol Building at Boise, Idaho
		Boise, Idaho’s largest city, became the capital of the Idaho Territory in 1865 and remained the capital when Idaho was granted statehood in 1890.
		Located in southern Idaho, the city has mild winters and temperate summers, unlike the state’s northern Rocky Mountain region.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461512944/Capitol_Building_at_Boise_Idaho.html (53 words)

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