The late 1800s witnessed the development of the telegraph, telephone, electric lighting and power, all creating a world-wide demand for copper. Prospectors discovered huge amounts of copper ore around Butte, Montana, and its mines flourished. Among the largest were those grouped around the Speculator, interconnected by a maze of tunnels …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
What if President Nixon, in the 1970s, had signed a bill [he didn’t] — call it The Redemption Act — to fight the growing crime rate in America? It establishes the death penalty for first degree murder, and provides an escape clause. Those convicted can choose to reject “death by …
The Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History — The Comanche Indians had absolute power in the wide, high plains of North America, from what is now Kansas to northern Mexico. By the year 1800, the Mississippi River was the United States western boundary. France claimed most of the land …
It’s hard to believe that this a true story, yet hard to believe that it is not. The writer has describes in vivid detail how he led a group of political prisoners who escape from a Russian prisoners camp in northern Siberia. They must walk more than four thousand miles …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Sid Halley is a thirty-eight year old champion jockey, disabled in a racing accident that destroyed his left hand. He now wears an artificial forearm and is a free-lance racing “investigator.” As the story opens, he is attending the Cheltonham Gold Cup Day with his ex-father-in-law and friend, Charles Rowland.
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Author Art Norlen came to the Silver Valley at age nineteen in 1928, having already worked briefly in the Montana copper mines. Typically in those days, miners’ wages were three dollars per twelve-hour day. Organized strikes for higher wages were illegal until about 1933. Art worked as a miner, and …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Harry Bosch is a Los Angeles police detective in mid-career, divorced, with a thirteen-year-old daughter living most of the year with her mother in Hong Kong. He has just been assigned to a new robbery/murder case in a mom-and-pop grocery in one of LA’s seedier neighborhoods.
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of years before Columbus and other Europeans discovered America, large civilizations flourished and died here. The Aztecs ruled in what is now Mexico. Before them, the Maya culture dominated southern Mexico with their own language, architecture and writing. And somewhere in that time period, another culture lived in eastern …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Ira Sparks is an ex-Texas Ranger who seeks a more peaceful existence on a ranch he owns in western Montana. An easy-going man, we first meet him riding his horse down the three day trip from the small, tight cabin he built at the upper end of his property, to …
Gwen Marcy is a free-lance forensic artist, called to Pikeville, Kentucky, to help identify a serial rapist. The latest victim lies in a hospital bed, badly beaten and barely able to talk. The local sheriff also asks Gwen to help identify the decomposed body of a man found dead in …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Hannah is an eight-year-old girl as the story opens with the sudden death of her mother in a gruesome auto accident in the town of Munich, North Dakota. Her only nearby relatives are her father, Johan, who is a Swedish immigrant farmer, and her maternal grandma, Lieula. But Munich is …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Obviously, no book available to the public is going to be up to date on this subject. Never mind; this book is a vivid history of the Cold War years between USA and Russia, and their strenuous efforts to stay ahead of each other in submarine warfare capability. It has …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
James Rebanks dropped out of school at the age of fifteen, disgusted with teachers who wanted him to “make something of himself.” Totally uninterested in meaningless school lectures, he looks forward to working full time as a farmer, raising sheep alongside his father and his grandfather. He is proud to …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
James Church is the pen name of a veteran American intelligence officer who spent several decades in Asia. He writes about North Korea. Not about the high military government as such, but of a few middle ranking government officers dealing with a crisis about to erupt. He offers a picture …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
We Americans spend a lot of time fretting about the news, whether on TV, in newspapers, or local rumor. We forget that bad news has been around since before we were born.
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
A tame-sounding title of an attention-gripping story. Those of us who lived in northern Idaho in the 1990’s might have called it STIFLING THE SWASTIKA IN AMERICA. We remember Richard Butler and his militant white supremacist Aryan Nation compound in the town of Hayden Lake, just north of Coeur d’Alene. …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
“The name Flying Tigers was unknown to us when we were quartered in an obscure hotel in downtown San Francisco, waiting for a Dutch motorboat that would transport us to the Orient to join the American Volunteer Group.”
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
