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1. 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 remained of the original Oregon Territory not part of the new state, and designated as the Washington Territory. Idaho achieved statehood in 1890.
2. The exact origin of the name remains a mystery. In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name "Idaho", which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning "the sun comes from the mountains" or "gem of the mountains". Willing later claimed he had simply invented the name.
3. Idaho was one of the hardest hit of the Pacific Northwest states during the Great Depression. Prices plummeted for Idaho's major crops: in 1932 a bushel of potatoes brought only $.10 compared to $1.51 in 1919, while Idaho farmers saw their annual income of $686 in 1929 drop to $250 by 1932.
4. The Church River Of No Return Wilderness has the most wilderness in the lower 48 states with 2.3 million acres of backcountry (and probably the coolest name). The combined wilderness is over 4.7 million acres, which is greater than the US's three smallest states combined.
5. As the story goes, Boise, the capital city of Idaho, got its name when French-Canadian fur trappers arrived in the 1800s and stumbled on the Boise River Valley, thickly lined with cottonwoods. They were so relieved to find shade and water after traveling through Idaho’s high desert that they shouted Les bois! Les bois! (“The woods! The woods!”) Today, Boise lives up to this moniker, with over 45,000 trees in public spaces spread throughout the valley.
6. Most people think the Grand Canyon is the deepest canyon in the US. Wrong. Northern Idaho’s Hells Canyon is the deepest river-carved canyon on the continent — the Snake River that runs through it sits 2.4km below the east rim at its highest point. That makes it about 600m deeper than Arizona’s showpiece. Coming in a hot second is Idaho’s Salmon River Gorge, where the granite walls rise 2.1km above the valley floor.
7. The history of nuclear energy for peaceful application has principally been written in Idaho. On July 17 1955, Arco, Idaho, became the first city in the world to use electricity generated from nuclear power. The BORAX-III reactor provided the energy from the National Reactor Testing Station. Unfortunately, on January 3 1961, the National Reactor Testing Station suffered a reactor meltdown that led to three deaths. It became the world’s first fatal reactor accident.
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