Authored by S. P. Morgan, Idaho, Facts and Statistics Pertaining to Its Early Settlement and Colonization provides a focused historical account of the state's first permanent white settlement, the Mormon-founded Franklin colony. The text blends demographic data, pioneer chronologies, and agricultural records to document how early religious settlers transformed the arid southeastern frontier into a viable, structured agrarian community. Furthermore, the book details the escalating territorial frictions between the encroaching colonizers and the indigenous Shoshone population, framing these violent clashes solely as "Indian troubles" that threatened pioneer progress. A keen insight drawn from the work is how early statistical histories weaponized civic data to justify indigenous displacement; by pairing seemingly objective agricultural metrics with subjective, one-sided narratives of Native American hostility, the text effectively disguised the brutal realities of colonization behind a veneer of rational economic development and inevitable civilization.