Wild Place: A History of Priest Lake, Idaho

by Kris Runberg Smith and Tom Weitz

Remote and rugged, Idaho's Priest Lake remains a wild place, with brutal winters and an upper lake accessible only by foot, mountain bike, or boat. Even so, beginning in the 1890s a wide cast of homesteaders, prospectors, speculators, and loggers tried their best to tame it.

Despite impressive forests, turn-of-the-century Western expansion bypassed the area, sparing its idyllic beauty. In 1897 President Grover Cleveland created the Priest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874223296
• ISBN13: 9780874223293
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 15 years and up