Ed Hooker dug through the snow to pitch his tent at Arbon
In 1914 Arbon homesteader M. E. Hooker told the Pocatello Tribune he had dug through several feet of snow and ice to find a place for his tent when he moved to the valley.
July 1914
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Fire on Elizabeth Jackson's homestead near Crystal, 1914
In July 1914 the Pocatello Tribune reported that a homesteader on Rattlesnake, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, had lost her house and everything in it to fire and was living in a tent.
The frost year: Bannock Valley's wheat crop of 1914
After a hopeful spring, frost struck the Bannock Valley wheat in June 1914; the papers followed the loss, a plea for lower taxes and the harvest that still came.