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WHAT CITY IN IDAHO? (EOM)
 

Re: WHAT CITY IN IDAHO?
 

M O S C O W


IT IS BY P U L L M A N, WERSHINTUN





Ed

Moscow ?
 

Did you know that in 1939-1940, when Stalin and Hitler were 'holding hands'...there was a SERIOUS move to rename Moscow, Idaho ?


Orv Reichert

Re: Moscow ?
 

I am usually up on history, but I am not sure why Moscow, Idaho is named Moscow?


Ed

Moscow ?
 

One suggestion was 'Cowtown"


Orv

Moscow Link ?
 

Maybe the potato-vodka connection ?

Re: Moscow ?
 

Being a native Idahoan, and a graduate of the University of Idaho (way back in 1950), I became familiar with how the city of Moscow, Idaho got it's name.


There was an old trapper named Jediah Moscowvich, who trapped in the northen part of Idaho in the olden days (before 1950). Jediah found a spring of fresh water where the city of Moscow is now located. He decided to settle there, married a local Nez Perce chief's daughter, and built the first log cabin in Moscow.


Jediah made his living trapping ground squirrels. Now, anybody who is familiar with the Palouse country knows that there are plenty of ground squirrels around Moscow. Jediah became fabulously wealthy from trading the squirrel hides, and he also sold the tasty squirrel meat in his store. There was only one door to the store, and since the crowds of people who also settled in the area couldn't get in to order their squirrel-burgers, Jediah cut a square hole in the side of the store, thus, opening the first drive-in in Idaho (before 1950). The people decided that the village should be named after Jediah, but Moscowvich had some leud connotatons to it, (there were some words that rhymed with it that some folks didn't like) so they decided to name the village Moscow.


And so it was, that the settlement became Moscow. By the way, the University was located at Moscow because the state legislature preferred to have the prison at Boise -- the prisoners were not so radical as those college kids (before 1950).

Re: Moscow Link ?
 

Sorry drinking those wine coolers tonight.


You listening GT?

Cowtown
 

Those of us at the UI-SB [Southern Branch-Pocatello] prior to 1949 would agree with the explanation...although, word at that time in Poky was that no HUMANS lived in Moscow?


Orv Reichert

Re: Cowtown
 

orv, I'd say something funny, but I think my typong skills are messed up.


Edddddd

Re: Cowtown
 

Jediah wasn't human, he was a trapper. That's why he was so popular.

Gottcha covered Ed!! (EOM)