Murder & Mayhem in Boise

Mark Iverson, Jeff Wade

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439676059
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Explore Boise's Bloody History!

Shortly after the nearby discovery of gold in 1862, outlaws and ruffians from all over began to congregate in newly platted Boise City. One of the city's only recorded pistol duels settled a dispute between a covetous husband and the lover of a young damsel--both happened to be lawyers. After getting busted running a long con, the King of Boise's Underworld was sent to the penitentiary. What could be called the area's first mass shooting occurred when an Alaskan gold miner sought revenge against the young woman who stood him up. A local postmaster found himself in a notorious case of a love triangle gone wrong. And, a death cult returned the mummy of one of its followers to Boise. Authors Mark Iverson and Jeff Wade go beyond the traditional histories to gain an appreciation for the lives often willfully removed from history's pages and thus forgotten.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface, by Jeff Wade
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Cemetery Stories: Where’d Dr. McIteeny Get To and the Sad Tale of Sergeant Peter Vogel
• Ezekiel Litell’s Axe to Grind
• Grove Street Gutting
• H.B. Lane Orders a Drink—Is Served a Shot
• The Wheels of Justice Begin to Turn
• Simeon Walters’s Short Drop
• A Bad Year in the Life of T. Burmester, Esquire
• Never Let Your Guard Down at Goodwin’s Mill
• Prison Break!: A Shootout at the Old Pen Orchard
• Boise’s Avenging Angell
• Who Was William L. Toomey?
• Swept to Eternity by the Raging Waters of the Boise River
• It’s Not Always Good to Be King
• The Butcher of Bannock Street
• The Warm Plunge of Death
• How Not to Clean a Stove
• An Old Pioneer Meets a Modern Death
• A Dark Day in the Capitol of Light
• Going Up—All the Way to Heaven
• Failure to Raise the Dead: The Strange Afterlife of Boise’s Edith Peshak
• The Other Eastman Fire
• The Cat Hunt
• Bibliography
• About the Authors