Irreverent Idaho: Potatoes, Prophets, and Paranoid Militia
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Irreverent Idaho: Potatoes, Prophets, and Paranoid Militia
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Narrated by:
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Sylvia Rausch
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If America is one big dysfunctional family, Idaho is the cousin you forget about until something bizarre drags it back into the spotlight. Potatoes? Sure. But also Ruby Ridge, Nazi compounds, hippies in hot springs, and a six-ton spud on wheels.
This isn’t the glossy brochure. Irreverent Idaho tells the state’s story with sharp wit and a wink: Indigenous ingenuity, gold-rush chaos, vigilante “justice,” Mormon pioneers, mining strikes, and Boise’s eternal identity crisis. Idaho is where contradictions thrive — prophets and paranoids, farmers and miners, militia bunkers and music festivals.
Come for the potatoes, stay for the contradictions. Raise a glass of potato vodka, local wine, or huckleberry beer, and discover a state that’s equal parts paradise and powder keg.
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