Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Eagle Author

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - June 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Eagle may be the only city in the arid American West that was first settled on an island. Four young miners left Idaho’s gold fields in 1863 to farm what is today called Eagle Island, between the Boise River’s north and south channels. Not easily accessed by Indian raiding parties, the island also allowed ready irrigation of the first croplands. It was an island farming couple, Tom and Mary Aiken, who founded the village of Eagle on the north “mainland” starting in 1895.

An interurban trolley in 1907 greatly stimulated the growth of the township which became a service and food processing center for a large, rural hinterland. Nevertheless, Eagle was still a small farming town when it finally incorporated in 1971. During subsequent decades though it was transformed by explosive growth and upscale development into one of the wealthiest communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Golf courses, hobby farms, a preoccupation with the arts, and foothill vineyards all attest to Eagle’s modern affluence. However, this history largely focuses on Eagle’s modest agricultural yesteryear.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!
Where:  Costco
2051 S. Cole Road, Boise ID 83709
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Eagle
by the City of Eagle
Images of America series
128 pages/ softcover
Published: December 10, 2012