Recommended Reading on Central Idaho History and Culture
After nearly two years of planning, preparation, and installation, the Wood River Museum of History and Culture opened its doors to the public on June 6, 2023.
All the exhibits at the Wood River Museum include interactive elements, where visitors are encouraged to write, type, talk, and remember – because we all are part of history! For example, in the Hemingway exhibit, individuals can sit at a typewriter like the one that Hemingway used and try typing their own true sentences. The Museum also includes a small gift shop with unique gifts that relate to the exhibits and regional history.
More about the Museum’s exhibits here.
Recommended Reading: Sun Valley
- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- The Latter Days: A Memoir by Judith Freeman
- The Lost Journals of Sacajawea by Debra Magpie Earling
- Moving the Millers’ Minnie Mine Moore Mansion: A True Story by Dave Eggers and Júlia Sardà
- Sun Valley by Dorice Taylor
- Sun Valley: An Extraordinary History by Wendolyn Holland
- Sun Valley Celebrity and Local Heroes Cookbook compiled by Sheila K Liermann
- It’s in the Blood: The Story of the Kilpatrick Brothers by Chris Millspaugh
- Spring of Gladness: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life by Mary Brown McGonigal
- Sun Valley Signatures I-III by David Stoecklein
- Memory and Destiny: The Life of Glenn Janss by Glenn Janss and Tony Tekaroniake Evans
- Wildflower Girl by Dana Stewart Quinney
- Ski the Mountain by Helen Markley Miller
Recommended Reading: Bald Mountain & Beyond
- Gretchen’s Gold: The Story of Gretchen Fraser by Luanne Pfeifer
- Moonshadows by Julie Whitesel Weston
- The Perfect Turn and Other Tales of Skiing and Skiers by Dick Dorworth
- Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings by John Lundin
- Sun Valley Skiers: The History of Sun Valley Skiing as Told by the People Who Lived It (DVD)
- Traplines by John Rember
- The Straight Course: Speed Skiing in the Sixties by Dick Dorworth
- Tours around Sun Valley by Betty Bell
- Sun Valley Ski Guide by Andy Hennig
- The National Ski Patrol System Manual (1941) by Charles Minot Dole
- Nice Goin’: My Life on Skis by Friedl Pfeifer
- The Man on the Medal by Dick Durrance
Recommended Reading: Hemingway
- Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition by Ernest Hemingway, introduction by John Maclean
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- High on the Wild with Hemingway by Lloyd Arnold
- How It Was by Mary Welsh Hemingway
- The Idaho Hemingway by Tillie Arnold
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Importance of Not Being Ernest by Mark Kurlansky
- Dreamers and Desperados: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West by Craig Lesley
- Literature in the Mountains: A Bookworm’s Guide to Sun Valley by Tony Evans
Recommended Reading: Native Peoples
- The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History by Darren Parry
- Children of the Stars: Indigenous Science Education in a Reservation Classroom by Ed Galindo
- A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area by Tony Tekaroniake Evans
- Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans by Alison Owings
- The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
- Sho-Ban News (periodical)
- The Nature Way by Corbin Harney
- Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life by LaNada War Jack
- Rivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West edited by Pei-Lin Yu.
Recommended Reading: Wood River Watershed
- Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land by Diane Josephy Peavey
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
- Exploring Sun Valley: A Comprehensive Guide to the Boulder, Pioneer, and Smoky Mountains by Matt Leidecker
- Idaho Wilderness Considered Edited by Murray Feldman and Jennifer Emery Davidson
- Powder Days by Heather Hansman
- Redoubt by Matthew Barney
- Confluence: Season Notes from the Idaho Mountains by Kerrin McCall
- Deep by Porter Fox
- The Trail Book Sun Valley created by Mark Kashino and Clarence Stillwill
- The Big Little Trail Guide by Betty Bell
- Living With Wolves by James Dutcher
- Hydrogeologic Framework of the Wood River Valley by James Bartolino
- A Pictorial Early History of the Wood River Valley by Sandra Hofferber
- Haunted by Waters: A Journey Through Race and Place in the American West by Robert Terry Hayashi
- The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross
- Nellie Moon and Moonshine Mystery series by Julie Weston
