Idaho Roots

A deep dive into Idaho’s rich history and culture.

The Business of Growing Cut Flowers

How to build a flower farm from the ground up, all the way from total ignorance to success

A trilogy set on the Snake River Plain: Tilden, Big Southern, and Watershed

Big Southern follows 1860s Mormon apostates to the Big Southern Butte, Brigham Young's Destroying Angels who they meet, and those who broke out the desert for irrigation: two canal companies battling for land and an engineer instrumental in the area's development.

In Tilden, a speech-impaired WWI veteran weaves his way through the lives of a host of immigrants—Germans, Mexicans, Japanese and Italians—as an area transforms from desert to agriculture.

In Watershed, a spurned academic returns to his birthplace to start up a County Historical Museum, the area's and his past erupting with his arrival.

A thoughtful meditation on addiction and a new way of appraising the experience

Diving deep into the subjective experience of listening to music, feeling bereaved, and understanding humor

Essays on Mexican Immigration, Japanese-American influence on farming, the early conflicts between Mormons and Gentiles, and trailing the bands of Shoshones to the Fort Hall Reservation in the late 1860s—plus much more.

Drawing heavily from letters during the time, a close inspection of two canal companies—one Mormon backed, the other an investor entity— battle for eighty thousand acres of land.

A detailed look at J.R. Simplot's attempt to corner the futures market in the 1970s, plus a history of the potato business in Idaho and a look at the evolution of the state's water wars

You won't think of east and west being in opposition after reading this book, which fuses cold logic with Taoist and Buddhist thought