Suggested Reading
 No relaxing vacation is complete without some summer reading, so bring along a book, or choose one from our portable library. If you are interested in local Salmon River lore, river legends, or natural history, check out our list of suggested titles.
Contact the Forest Service for waterproof maps of the rivers: Main Salmon, 208-865-2383, Middle Fork, 208-879-4101. Maps can also be purchased at each river put-in. |
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- Idaho's Salmon River, A river runner's Guide to the River of No Return ~ Corn Creek to Carey Creek
Rapids, camps, trails, GPS coordinates, and more. Printed on waterproof paper. By Eric & Allison Newell.
Order at blackcanyonguides.com
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- The Middle Fork of the Salmon River, A Comprehensive Guide
Detailed maps, rapid description, hiking, geology, camps, history, in a mile-by-mile format. Printed on waterproof paper. By Matt Leidecker.
Order at middleforkbook.com
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- Salmon River Country
Wilderness essays by Stephen Stuebner and photographs by Mark Lisk. An awe-inspiring study, in word and picture, of one of the last wild places in the United States.
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- Impassable Canyon
Matt Leidecker, Impassable Canyon captures wild and scenic views and once-in-a-lifetime stories from adventurers who have floated their way through Idaho's magnificent River of No Return Wilderness. Order at middleforkbook.com
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- The River of No Return
Johnny Carrey and Cort Conley (historical mile-by-mile account of the Main Salmon, including topographical maps indicating mileage and some rapids)
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- The Middle Fork, A Guide,
Johnny Carrey and Cort Conley (historical mile-by-mile account of the Middle Fork, including topographical maps indicating mileage and some rapids)
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- Indians of Idaho,
Deward E. Walker, Jr.
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- Idaho Loners,
Cort Conley (a look into the lives of Idaho hermits)
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- The Last of the Mountain Men,
Harold Peterson (the biography of Sylvan Hart, a.k.a. Buckskin Bill, who lived on the Main Salmon River)
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- Spirits of the Salmon River,
Kathy Deinhardt Hill (an historical profile of the people buried along the River of No Return)
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