Harry did what he could to survive as a young boy living in the rough-and-tumble Central Idaho in the early 1900s.  Listen in as he talks about his adventures and scrapes with danger. 

Before loggers took their timber out with large tractor-skidders, they used horses and chains. Many men lost their legs, fingers, and lives doing this dangerous work. Listen-in as Harry talks about skidding logs with his horse. 

Robert L. Hicks and his wife Annie were sick of the aftermath of the Great Civil War and yearned to breath air nobody else was breathing. So, they loaded up their wagon and headed west. Despite all the tribulations, including gunfights, they settled in the Camas Prairie of Central Idaho. This is their story. 

For Harry Hicks, getting the flu and dealing with sickness had its price. It was 1925, and the doctor had nearly killed him once already. Would he survive this next bout of illness without the undertaker coming to the door?

In 1925, Harry was a young boy when his family visited the vast Camas Prairie in Central Idaho. He was able to taste watermelon for the first time and learn what it was like to travel in the back of an old Model T pickup.