Idaho: The Heroic Journey - Hardcover

Katherine Aiken is professor of history and associate dean at the University of Idaho, where she has taught since 1984. She is the author of Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883 1924 (University of Tennessee Press, 1998) and Idaho s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885 1982 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005). She is working on a biography of Idaho s first female member of Congress, Gracie Pfost. Aiken and her husband live in Moscow and have two adult children. Kevin R. Marsh is assistant professor of history at Idaho State University, where he teaches Idaho history and environmental history. He is the author of Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest (University of Washington Press, 2007) and the editor of the Idaho volume of the Dictionary of United States History (New Library Press, 2007). He is currently researching the environmental history of the Snake River Aquifer. Dr. Marsh lives in Pocatello with his wife and son. Laura Woodworth-Ney is associate professor of history and director of women s studies at Idaho State University. She is the author of Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d Alene Indian Reservation, 1805 1902 (University Press of Colorado, 2004), a finalist for the Idaho Library Association Book Award; and of Reclaiming Culture: Women, Ideology, and the Settlement of the Irrigated West, 1870 1924 (University of Arizona Press, 2007). Dr. Woodworth-Ney is also editor-in-chief of the state history journal, Idaho Yesterdays, and editor of a scholarly book series at the University of Arizona Press, Women s Western Voices. She lives with her husband and son in Pocatello.