The library has a number of local histories, family history and genealogy resources. Most of these items are non-circulating and can be viewed at the library. Many of the Soda Springs School District yearbooks are available at the library. The yearbooks have also been digitized and are available at Family Search. We have one historic phone book from 1962, which has also been digitized.
Locally Famous Individuals
Cariboo Jack
Six Shooter Sal
Historic Local Family Names
Beus, Call, Harris, Horsley, Lallatin, Lau, Thirkill, Tigert, Woodall, and many others.
Local Histories
Tosoiba – Sparkling waters by Lula Barnard
Ender’s Hotel : a memoir by Brandon R. Schrand
Historic Soda Springs : Oasis on the Oregon Trail by Ellen Carney
Pioneer Cedar Cemetery Soda Springs, Idaho ; the most complete listing of those who were buried here taken from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers commemorative plaque with additions and additional information
Joseph Morris and the saga of the Morrisites (revisited) by C. LeRoy Anderson
History of Conda, Idaho
Black, Bear Lake, Willow, Cache Valley, Sheep Rock, Soda Point Before the Mormons by John Ulrich Stucki
Plenty western : Henry Stampede and Stockman’s Reunion by Ellen Carney
Chesterfield : Mormon outpost in Idaho
The mountain Carriboo and other gold camps in Idaho by Ellen Carney
Mormon country. A summer with the “Latter-Day Saints.” by John Codman
Local Biographies
Life story and memories of our father Howard E. Thirkill by his daughters
Flora Whitmore – a biography of Caribou County’s oldest living citizen by Ellen Carney
A long rope and a wide loop: A cowboy and missionary by Sherman Smith
James Franklin Woodall Jr : written in 1988.
Edie by Ellen Carney
Ellis Kackley, best damn doctor in the West by Ellen Carney
Evan M. Kackley : Carrying on the tradition vol. 2 by Ellen Carney
Six shooter Sal by Donald L. Cook
Family Genealogies
A genealogy of the Comish family of the Isle of Man, Great Britain, v. 1-2
“Gems” of our valley : a written and pictorial history of Gem Valley located in southeastern Idaho along the Bear River, 1811-1977, and the people who have lived there
Now and then : A picture book of Caribou County, Idaho
Pioneer trails and trials (Madison, Montana)
Gentile Valley – by Thatcher Ward
Whence and whither : origins and descendants of Michael and Marianne Beus by H. Lynn Beus
The homesteaders by Evelyn L. McLeod (Lundgren family)