Idaho State Facts: People and History
Native Americans inhabited the region for over 14,000 years before European exploration by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805. The 1860 gold discovery attracted thousands, Idaho achieved statehood in 1890, and today about 1.3 million people live there with diverse industries including electronics, chemicals, lumber, agriculture, and tourism.
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Idaho Highlights From 1955 Featured Nuclear Progress
Idaho 1955 items note Arco becoming the first city powered entirely by nuclear energy and a nearby world’s first nuclear plant. Bear Lake across Idaho and Utah shows turquoise water from special chemicals. Boise, the City of Trees, has about 186000 residents, with a capitol heated by hot springs from 3000 feet underground. Craters of the Moon NM holds about 40 lava flows and early astronauts trained there. Bruneau Dunes SP hosts the highest single standing sand dune in the US at 470 feet.
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Idaho’s wildlife and wonders across the Gem State
Idaho features elk and bighorn sheep, mule deer, antelope, bears, moose, and cougars amid forests covering about 40 percent. The state hosts 72 stone varieties, a 20 carat diamond near McCall, Sun Valley’s holiday origin of The Hokey Pokey, and historic Nez Perce clashes led by Chief Joseph. It sells most U S potatoes, Russet Burbank, and grows lentils, barley, sugar beets, mint, wheat, onions, dairy. Shoshone, Payute, Kootenai tribes. Crystalline caves, trout capitals, and Sun Valley’s ski heritage. Hagerman fossils.
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