Fifty years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, a new book shows how this iconic moment in eastern Idaho is connected to other historic events. Nathaniel Gee, author of “Faith and Fortitude: How ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after the Teton Dam collapsed, Vincent Poxleitner still remembers the sound of the water, the destruction left behind ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. REXBURG – When the wall of water hit Rexburg on June 5, 1976, it destroyed Trent ...
Bill Whitaker may not be a household name today, but for a brief time during his childhood, he was part of Hollywood. His ...
We launched our drift boat for a day of fly fishing on Idaho’s Teton River at a site within what was for a brief period of time the reservoir behind the Bureau of Reclamation constructed Teton Dam, ...
REXBURG — Richard Robison remembers the day of the Teton Dam collapse well. He was 13 years old. "My dad got a phone call; he told us the Teton Dam was breaking," Robison said. "We knew there was a ...
REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) - Rexburg held events all week in honor of the anniversary of the Teton Dam flood as part of the Flood 50 "remember. connect. serve." initiative. The week culminated on Saturday ...
NEWDALE, IDAHO (KIFI) – Dozens of Idaho leaders honored the men and women who overcame unbelievable devastation unleashed when a wall of water 80 feet high surged out of the Teton Dam 50 years ago.
Teton Dam engineer Vince Poxleitner recounts 1976 collapse that nearly claimed his family Teton Dam engineer Vince Poxleitner escaped collapse, saved his young family minutes before flood swept valley ...
The Teton Letters is a collection of oral histories of the Teton Dam collapse, compiled by Richard Robison on Substack. (Mike Anderson, KSL) KSL archive footage shows how parts of Southeastern Idaho ...