Randy Stapilus, the editor and publisher of the Idaho Weekly Briefing and author of four earlier lists of influential Idahoans, has based this one on levels of overall influence in the state – and freedom of action and ability to influence development of the state – as of the start of 2015. The list was compiled chiefly in December 2014 and relied on input from a wide variety of publicly-involved Idahoans from the state.Stapilus noted that the list is not an “honor roll” as such, b...

Book marketing ideas are so numerous as to populate a city, overrunning books, booklets, articles, offers, bargains, come-ons, even a few scams. But which will sell your book? Every book needs its own sales strategy. There is no universal silver bullet for bestsellerdom. But excellent sales tools and resources, some obscure and others well known (but often misused), are available. You'll find them, and how and when to use them, and learn about what approaches actually have helped to sell b...

America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure. But there are many things we can do, and this book includes 50 of them. American health care can be better than it is now. This book was written before passage of the Affordable Care Act, and includes a few ideas which were built into it - and many others that we...

Looking for the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV? Camping Idaho will take you there.This comprehensive guidebook gives detailed descriptions of more than 300 public campgrounds throughout Idaho's widely varied scenery. These are campsites managed by national, state, city, and county parks; the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Idaho Power Company. They're in remote wilderness areas and near cities, in deserts and on mountaintops, along roaring stre...

The frontier towns of Idaho were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Serial killer Lyda Lewis poisoned her unsuspecting husbands to cash in on their life insurance. The Eddy and Splawn families created counterfeit U.S. gold pieces. And "Diamondfield" Jack Davis, a notorious killer, even shot a child's dog.From Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon, read about the most notorious desperados in the history of the Gem State. ...

From President Cleveland’s alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State’s most fascinating and compelling stories.

Looking for the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV? Camping Idaho will take you there.This comprehensive guidebook gives detailed descriptions of more than 300 public campgrounds throughout Idaho's widely varied scenery. These are campsites managed by national, state, city, and county parks; the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management; and the Idaho Power Company. They're in the remote wilderness areas and near cities, in deserts and on mountaintops, along roaring ...

This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Gem State.

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Idaho’s past—both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include:Ezra Pound, native Idahoan and celebrated poet, who followed the slippery slope of...

In 1988 journalist Randy Stapilus wrote and published Paradox Politics, a history of the last half-century of Idaho politics. As in many other places, politics in Idaho has changed a great deal since then, and now Stapilus has published The Stuck Pendulum, a sequel to the book from the 80s bringing the story of Idaho politics up to date.

A comprehensive narrative history of Mt. Rushmore, written in light of recent political controversies, and a timely retrospective for the monument's 100th anniversary in 2025“Well, most people want to come to a national park and leave with that warm, fuzzy feeling with an ice cream cone. Rushmore can’t do that if you do it the right way. If you do it the right way people are going to be leaving pissed.”Gerard Baker, the first Native American superi...

The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers.Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corne...