Dick d'Easum fist glimpsed Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains when he was a boy, and it was love at first sight. D'Easum spent his life getting better acquainted with the mountains. He collected stories of the people, history, and legends of the region for more than fifty years.

History, Idaho Sawtooth Valley, Sawtooth Valley (Idaho) History

The Sawtooth crags Mountain men Alturas County Stanley Beaver Dick's mountain of silver Mining Trips to Yankee Fork Humboldt Joe Beautiful Lake Tahoma Lost mines Sawtooth Jack Samson Chill at Atlanta Doc Durham Hot springs The White Clouds Lost freighter Fritchman's mule trip Camas Wild Man Women's cleanup The Benner mystery Dirty deeds in the rough Johnny-Behind-the-Rocks Missing legislator Lizzie King Death of a teamster Chips Evans Clayton Danks Silver Mountain Confessions of a Sawtooth lover A monument for Major Hyndman Name that mountain Ghosts of Galena U.S. Forest Service Push for a park South Fork of the Payette River Canyon Creek Sun Valley Floating down the river Fishing and other sports Whisky Bob Gold old mountain schooling Bear fight in the Craters Blue. Illustrations: El Capitan and Alice Lake Beef on range in Sawtooth Valley Dick d'Easum and Mercer Kerr at Obsidian, 1931 Mount Hyndman, with William Hyndman inset William Horton, first ranger at Pole Creek Mount Heyburn, with Senator Weldon B. Heyburn inset Pack string above Atlanta Authentic old freight wagons in recent Ketchum parade Heavy snow on Steele Mountain.fd2