Author Chronicles Priest Lake

A new book, Wild Place: A History of Priest Lake, Idaho (Washington State University Press), offers the first comprehensive, accurate chronicle of Priest Lake. Author Kris Runberg Smith’s family has had ties to the area since her great-great grandfather, a timber cruiser, arrived in 1897. Yet despite being a location one local newspaper branded “a cult with many vacationists,” no one had ever properly recorded its history—at least according to one family member. “As a kid I listened to my grandmother complain about each self-published memoir, claiming they didn’t get the stories right,” Smith explained. Now a professor of history at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, she set out to change that/ Caryn Lawton , WSU marketing manager. More here .

Question: When did you last visit Priest Lake?