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Idaho
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Panoramic View - Boise,
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Idaho is a mountainous
state located just north of the state of Utah, and surrounded by Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and British
Columbia as well. It's largest city is Boise. People from Idaho are
called "Idahoams. It was the 43rd state admitted to the Union on
July 3, 1890.
The network of dams and locks on the Columbia River and Snake River make the city of Lewiston the farthest inland seaport on the west coast of the continental United States.
Idaho is one of only two places in the world where star garnets can be found (the other is the Himalaya Mountains, in India), and is the only place six pointed star garnets have been found.
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Largest Cities: Boise, Nampa, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Meridian,
Coeur d'Alene, Twin Falls, Lewiston, Caldwell, Moscow.
 Idaho:
Idaho
Cities
Capital: Boise, ID
Nickname: The Gem State
Motto:
Esto Perpetua (Latin for "Let it be forever").
Residents: Idahoan
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State Parks: 30 (43,000+ ac.)
Land
area: 82,747 sq mi. (214,315 sq km
Geographic
Center: In Custer Co., at Custer, SW of Challis
Number
of Counties: 44
Largest
County: Fulton, 915,623 (2005); Ware, 903 sq mi.
History:
Idaho, as part of the Oregon Country, was claimed by both the United States and Great Britain until the United States gained undisputed jurisdiction in 1846. From 1843 to 1849 present-day Idaho was under the de facto jurisdiction of the Provisional Government of Oregon. When Oregon became a state, what is now Idaho was in what was left of the original Oregon Territory not part of the new state, and designated as the Washington Territory.
After gold was discovered at Orofino Creek in 1860, prospectors swarmed into the territory, but they left little more than a number of ghost towns.
In the 1870s, growing white occupation of Indian lands led to a series of battles between U.S. forces and the Nez Percé, Bannock, and Sheepeater tribes.
Mining and lumbering have been important for years. Idaho ranks high among the states in silver, antimony, lead, cobalt, garnet, phosphate rock, vanadium, zinc, and mercury.
Agriculture is a major industry: The state produces about one fourth of the nation's potato crop, as well as wheat, apples, corn, barley, sugar beets, and hops.
The 1990s saw a remarkable growth in the high technology industries, concentrated in the metropolitan Boise area.
With the growth of winter sports, tourism now outranks other industries in revenue. Idaho's many streams and lakes provide fishing, camping, and boating sites. The nation's largest elk herds draw hunters from all over the world, and the famed Sun Valley resort attracts thousands of visitors to its swimming, golfing, and skiing facilities.
Points of interest are the Craters of the Moon National Monument; Nez Percé National Historic Park, which includes many sites visited by Lewis and Clark; and the State Historical Museum in Boise. Other attractions are the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area south of Boise, Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in south-central
Idaho.
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