Hastings to Host Book Signing for Local Boise Author

Frank Thomason and Polly Ambrose Peterson will be available to sign copies of pictorial history
 
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - June 18, 2013 - PRLog -- On a high-desert plateau of the Snake River Plain in southwestern Idaho, Boise, the “City of Trees,” began as an encampment on the Oregon Trail along the Boise River. Natives were soon after displaced, and by 1864, a town site was platted north of the river, abutting the garrison at Fort Boise. Early settlers found livelihoods as merchants, supplying miners in the Boise Basin, where gold was discovered in 1862. Boiseans experienced difficulty accepting a municipal government and had to wrest territorial status from Lewiston in northern Idaho.

Through decades of irrigation and commerce, they grappled with isolation and a scarcity of goods and amenities, which produced a remarkably resilient and vibrant population. From the railroad in 1880s to statehood in 1890, the interurban, and the airplane, rocket, and computer chip–making eras, Boise continues to grow and thrive.

Join the authors for a signing:
Where:  Hastings
7500 West Fairview Avenue  Boise, ID 83704
When:  June 22nd, 2013; 1:00 —3:00 p.m.

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

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.

Boise
by Frank Thomason
Images of America Series
Price: $21.99
126 pages/ softcover
Published: April 13, 2009
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