Teichert, Minerva Kohlhepp

1888 - 1976

Lincoln County

Biographical and Professional Information

Minerva Teichert grew up in the Snake River "bottoms" of Idaho and records in "Drowned Memories" her memories of the people, places and flavor of life in that area before it was covered by what is now the American Falls Reservoir. In "A Romance of Old Fort Hall," she tells the story of a white man adopted as a baby by an Indian couple who raise him as their own. Indian folklore is interwoven throughout as is the history of Old Hall and the Snake River country of Idaho. She lived out the end of her life in Cokeville, Wyoming.

Genres

Autobiography or Biography

Fiction

Nonfiction

Titles

• A Romance of Old Fort Hall (1932). Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press. ISBN: (?).

• Drowned Memories (1926). Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News. ISBN: (?).

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