Idaho Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary

By Lalia Phipps Boone

Book Overview

In 1966, Lalia Boone, utilizing the resources then available, established the "Idaho Place Names Project," and began the first complete toponomy of the state. The result, after twenty years of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893011193
• ISBN13: 9780893011192
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Caxton Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Little Idaho book

Idaho Place Names is an interesting, informative, well organized, easy to carry book. It provides a predictable set of informtion regarding every town, county, creek, river, peak, lake, post office,spring, pass, landing, mountain, canyon, park, basin, or bay in Idaho. Information includes origin of place name, coordinates, county, elevation & a brief history. A map of Idaho's counties is on the inside front cover. More maps, such as a map of each county, would have been fun. JGR

How did it get it's name?---This book tells you.

"How did my town get it's name?"...Idaho Place Names gives you the answer. It will give you the history about the founding of your town and the succession of names to the present. It also includes the origin of names for mountains, rivers, hills and hollows. It takes you from "Abandon Creek" to "Zumwalt Lake" with 400 pages of intriguing history in-between. If you are interested in the history of the west you will enjoy this book.