‘An Innocent on the Middle Fork: A Whitewater Adventure in Idaho’s Wilderness’
by Eliot DuBois
This book documents one man’s trip down the Middle Fork in 1942 as a solo adventure filled with close calls. This early trip is juxtaposed with a trip forty years later in 1982. DuBois compares the river itself from both sides of forty years, and his descriptions are exquisite.

‘The Middle Fork: A Guide’
by Carrey and Conley
A great guide to the history of the Middle Fork: from the native Mountain Shoshone, through settlers and early boating records. Carrey and Conely tell an intriguing story of the connection people have had to this landscape across a span on hundreds of years.

‘The Middle Fork of the Salmon River: A Comprehensive Guide’
by Matt Leidecker
This waterproof spiral bound guide is a must if you are headed out on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. It includes a detailed mile-by-mile river map with rapid descriptions and history notes. Leidecker also has a section on the geology of the river and on good relevant hikes accessible from the river.

‘Wildflowers of the West’
by Edith Kinucan and Denny R. Brons
(Kinnucan and Brons publishers,
P O Box 87, Clark Fork, ID  83811-0087).  An easy-to-read book with excellent flower pictures and descriptions of plant uses.

‘Sockeye: the life of Pacific Salmon’
by Roger Caras (The Dial Press). 
The life of a sockeye as seen by a sockeye. Illustrates the integral role that clean rivers play for a healthy salmon population.

‘Idaho Loners’
by Cort Conley (Backeddy Books, 1994) 
An in-depth look into the lives of the hermits, solitaries and individualists that shaped Idaho’s history.  Fun, intriguing, biographical reading. 

‘Thunder Mountain’
by Zane Grey (Walter J. Black, Inc., 1932)
A fantastic story about a gold mine near the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the 1860’s.  It is no longer in print.  Try your local used bookstores for a copy of this great book!

‘The Weiser Indians: Shoshoni Peacemakers’
by Hank Corless (The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1996)
This book documents Indian-white relations in the southwestern Idaho during the time of initial white encroachment onto Indian lands.  It also offers a perspective on all native peoples of the northern Great Basin.  It also illustrates the daily life and culture of an Idaho Indian tribe around the time of the first settlement of Idaho by white people.

‘The Shoshoni’
by Alden R. Carter (Franklin Watts Publishing), 60 pgs.