Every Lake
Idaho
A panhandle and a great Snake River crescent, with more wilderness than any state below Alaska.
Idaho in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Idaho.
About Idaho
Idaho's odd shape — a wide south and a long, thin panhandle — is what was left after Montana and Washington took their pieces. The eastern border follows the crest of the Bitterroot Range along the Continental Divide, so the line bends with the mountains. The Snake River enters from Wyoming and swings across the south in a great crescent of irrigated plain before turning north to cut Hells Canyon, at points deeper than the Grand Canyon. Behind it stand the Sawtooths and a central block of roadless mountain country. Forty-four counties.
Idaho entered on July 3, 1890 as the 43rd state, one week before Wyoming. Boise, a stop on the Oregon Trail where a river ran out of the mountains into dry country, was made territorial capital in 1864 and kept it — the cottonwoods along that river are what French trappers were naming when they called it les bois. The board carries the Sawtooth peaks, the Salmon River running clean across the middle, and I-84 following the old trail through the southern plain.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 8 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
