Ezra S. Stucki’s Homesteading in the Bear Lake Valley offers an intimate social and agricultural record of pioneer settlement across the northern margins of Bear Lake County. Stucki traces the arduous physical labor required to clear sagebrush benchlands, construct hand-hewn log cabins, and engineer cooperative gravity-flow water ditches diverted from Georgetown Creek. The narrative captures the daily realities of dry-farming, livestock wintering, and cheese production, illuminating the strong communal alliances that sustained isolated families through harsh subalpine winters. Stucki preserves pioneer genealogies, early school records, and municipal developments spanning Georgetown, Bennington, and Nounan, documenting the agrarian perseverance that forged the valley’s rural heritage.

Bear Lake County (Idaho) History, Bear Lake Valley (Idaho and Utah), Bennington (Idaho), Frontier and pioneer life Idaho Georgetown, Georgetown (Idaho) History, History, Local history, Mormons Idaho Bear Lake County, Nounan (Idaho), Pioneers Idaho Bear Lake Valley Biography

Includes family genealogies and pioneer cemetery transcripts.

Includes family genealogies and pioneer cemetery transcripts.