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News Release
June 1, 2007
Latest 'Idaho Yesterdays' History Journal Available
The Spring/Summer 2007 edition of Idaho Yesterdays, focusing on frontier
exchanges, is now available. The theme refers to the historic role of Idaho
Territory as a cultural crossroads where diplomacy, music, food and
fur-trade exploration transformed frontier commerce and facilitated global
exchange.
This special multimedia issue includes a mini-CD of three original folk
songs about Idaho history from the Bona Fide musical duo of Gary Eller and
Marv Quinton. Members of the Idaho State Historical Society will receive the
CD free with their copy of the journal. Songs included are “Sagebrush
Annie,” relating the details of an early train wreck; “Uncle Dick,” about an
old-time farmer in eastern Idaho; and “While Away from Whiskey, Wild Woman
and Beer,” a song originally written by Harry Silvey, a petty criminal who
served time in Idaho’s Old Pen.
Edited by Laura Woodworth-Ney at Idaho State University, the state’s history
journal is produced by the Center for Idaho History and Politics at Boise
State University. Visit
http://www.idahoyesterdays.com for expanded features, educational lesson
plans and more.
Idaho Yesterdays combines color photography with rare imprints, museum
artifacts, memoirs, reviews and academic articles. The Idaho State
Historical Society publishes Idaho Yesterdays with support from the Idaho
Humanities Council and the Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young
University (Provo, Utah). The journal’s editorial board is made up of
faculty from Boise State, University of Idaho, Lewis and Clark State
College, Brigham Young University-Idaho and College of Southern Idaho.
Three state agencies — Idaho State University, Boise State University and
the Idaho Historical Society — joined forces in fall 2004 to revive
publication of Idaho Yesterdays. The popular journal devoted to the history
of the Gem State debuted in 1957 and served as a valuable academic journal
of Idaho history for 45 years. Due to state budget cuts, publication was
suspended in 2002.
The journal is available through the Idaho State Historical Society and is
free with membership. To purchase a copy, call (208) 334-2682; e-mail
Bobbi.Viker@ishs.idaho.gov;
or write to the Idaho State Historical Society at 2205 Old Penitentiary
Road, Boise, ID, 83712. It is also available at Vista Book Gallery, Borders
Books and at the Historical Museum gift shop.
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Contact: Laura Woodworth-Ney, Idaho Yesterdays editor, (208)
282-2606, woodlaur@isu.edu
Media Contacts: Kathleen Craven, University Relations, Boise State
University, (208) 426-3275,
kcraven@boisestate.edu
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Friday, June 01, 2007
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