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Idaho Yesterdays
Idaho Yesterdays is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing current research on the history and culture of Idaho and its region. Idaho Yesterdays offers an accessible, illustrated format for both academic and general readers.

Boxed set (5). The state’s journal of historical record is the winner of the Idaho Heritage Trust Media Award. The collector’s set includes five colorful issues, embossed and signed. Topics include Native Americans, frontier commerce, food, ethnic heritage, folklore and folksongs, sacred places, radicalism, women in politics, and the material culture of everyday life.

A Girl from God’s County
(The Nell Shipman Collection, Vol. 1)
The silent classic Back to God’s Country has been restored from two surviving prints. The international hit, written by and starring Shipman, is the earliest surviving feature film shot (partially) in Canada. Its contemporary electronic and traditional musical instrument score by English composer Lindsay Cooper assists in making the film completely accessible and meaningful for today’s audience. DVD bonus features include the story of the film’s recovery and restoration by Canadian archivist D. J. Turner and the award-winning television documentary “Awe Gee, Forgetting Me...Nell Shipman” by Patricia Phillips.

The Short Films
(The Nell Shipman Collection, Vol. 2)
Surviving Shipman films shot in California—a two reeler and an almost feature length film—are collected on this DVD. The unforgettable chase ‘n’ race feature “Something New,” now screened on the Turner Network, stars Shipman as a Lady Writer, captured by banditos, saved by a Maxwell automobile driving hero who, himself, is later saved by…the Lady Writer, of course! Assisted by an animal actor—also of course! The two-reeler is the charming and witty “A Bear, A Boy, & A Dog,” which will delight young (and adult) children. “Extras” include an interview with the star’s granddaughter, the rare first film by Academy Award-winning Joseph Walker (Shipman’s cinematographer), and an interview with Jack Benny’s daughter, Joan.

From Lionhead Lodge
(The Nell Shipman Collection, Vol. 3)
All of cinema pioneer Shipman’s made-in-Idaho films on one DVD!—including her classic feature film “The Grub-Stake” (tinted, with new score), and all surviving short films, “Little Dramas of the Big Places.” DVD extras include “The Making of ‘The Grub-Stake’” by Barry Shipman, the award winning documentary “At Lionhead Lodge” directed by Paul Brand, and Priest Lake, Idaho home movies from the 1920s–1950s.

Silver Screen Postcards
Fourteen b&w and color postcards chronicle the life and career of cinema pioneer Nell Shipman.

 

Suggested Photo Spots
by Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos
Prize-winning spiral bound volume, a combination postcard and log book. Color cards are antonyms of Disneyland and other tourist destinations which identify “Kodak Moments.” In contrast, Stone and Vamos have documented equally important but perhaps less attractive sights: nuclear power plants, waste sites, barbed wire border fencing, abandoned mine pits—many in the American West.