Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 219 pages of information about Our Government.

Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 219 pages of information about Our Government.

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  election of,
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Spoils system,
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Streets,
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Territories,
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Town type of local government,
  township-county type,
Treasury, department of,
Treasury notes,
Treaties,
Trusts,

Union, steps leading to,
United States notes,

Vacancies, in House of Representatives,
  in Senate,
Vestry,
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Virginia plan,
Voting, methods in Congress,

War, declaration of,
  department of,

Yeas and nays,

THE GOVERNMENT

OF IDAHO

By

J.T.  Worlton

Superintendent of Schools, Sugar City

Copyright, 1907, By

Charles Scribner’s Sons

CONTENTS.

HISTORICAL
FORM OF GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
THE GOVERNMENT OF IDAHO. 
HISTORICAL.

The country out of which Idaho was created, known as a part of the Oregon Country, was acquired by treaty with England in 1846.  Long before this date, however, trappers, hunters, explorers, and sturdy pioneers had found their way across the Rocky Mountains into the fertile valleys drained by the tributaries of the Columbia.

The earliest white men in this region were undoubtedly the half-breed French-Canadian voyageurs and the trappers of the Hudson Bay Company, who opened the trails through all the great wilderness of the Pacific Northwest; but the honor of revealing to the world the first impressions of the natural beauty and boundless resources of this new country west of the Rockies rests with Lewis and Clark, who crossed the State on their voyage of exploration and discovery in August, 1805.  They found the Indians in possession of articles of European manufacture which had been obtained from the trappers of the Hudson Bay Company.

The first white settlement in Idaho of which we have record was established in 1834 at Fort Hall, Bannock County.  This fort was important in early Idaho history, being at the crossing of the Missouri-Oregon and the Utah-Canadian trails.

Fort Boise, established in 1836 near the junction of the Snake and Boise rivers, was a rendezvous for thousands of Indians, who gathered from all the country between the Pacific coast and the head waters of the Missouri River to trade and barter in horses, furs, and articles of adornment.

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