...Explore the rich history of Kamiah and the Surrounding Area.
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Books about Kamiah
Undaunted Courage (by Stephen E. Ambrose) A biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with visits to Kamiah in 1805 and 1806. Yellow Wolf - His Own Story (as told to LV McWhorter) Yellow Wolf was one of the last survivors of the 1877 Nez Perce Indian War. The flight of the Nez Perce from Kamiah to the Canadian border. Peaceful Valley : The Story of Kamiah's Early Years by Virginia Woods Meyer Snowbound by Ladd Hamilton. Riding five horses and leading five more, three young New York men, their guide, and a camp cook entered the untamed vastness of the Bitteroot Mountains. They expected the trip to be the adventure of a lifetime, but it was already September. As the hunters made their way up the Lolo Trail in 1893, they were unaware of the coming record snows that would trigger a cruel, controversial decision. Snowbound is the true story of the Carlin party, whose ill luck and bad judgment drove decent men to an ethical dilemma that intrigued the nation and can still raise an argument wherever people rub shoulders with wilderness. I Never Felt Poor Except in Town: Selway Saga 1932-1948 by Jean Carroll and Borg Hendrickson Seven Switchbacks to Home by Ruth Cochran Montague Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. The extraordinary biographical novel about Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese-American woman who fought for independence and dignity in North Idaho. |
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"Older than the recorded history of the West, Kamiah was the winter home of the Nez Perce Indians. It was here they came to fish for steelhead, a staple in their diet, and to manufacture “Kamia” ropes, hence the name Kamiah, meaning the place of “many rope litters”." |
