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A Day In History: Glimpsing The Land As Primary Source, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

For nine years, three Idaho professors have researched the early culture of the irrigated settlement communities along the Snake and Boise Rivers in southern Idaho. Massive federal projects in the early 1900s transformed southern Idaho from desert into arable land, thereby creating the foundation for Idaho as it is today. Through historical photographs and writings, the work of historians, and first hand visits to historical sites, we have tried to understand this brief, pivotal period in Idaho history. We have presented our findings through in poetry and videos, what Richardson (1994) calls “evocative representations” of research data. A host of …