Idaho's liquor ban started in 1916 and the nation followed suit four years later. From booze hidden in boots to smashing bars with hatchets, prohibition brewed an overflow of illegal activity for more than a decade.
In the early fifties, the U.S. Navy was hard at work developing a nuclear-powered engine to drive submarines and aircraft carriers. The efforts created the Naval Reactors Facility in the desert outside Idaho Falls.
In the early fifties, the U.S. Navy was hard at work developing a nuclear-powered engine to drive submarines and aircraft carriers. The efforts created the Naval Reactors Facility in the desert outside Idaho Falls.
Idaho's Hidden Gems examines an influential photographer who helped put Twin Falls on the map, the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in our state, and a unique pioneer museum in Idaho's southern desert.
In its early days, Idaho was a crazy place with multiple ways to strike it rich some legitimate, some not. Bank robberies and bandits, stagecoach heists and holdups, and stories about missing loot are still waiting to be rediscovered.
