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Idaho State Symbols, Songs, and Emblems
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| Designation | Symbol / Emblem | Adopted |
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Sources...Idaho Governor, Idaho State Symbols, <http://gov.idaho.gov/fyi/symbols/symbols_index.html> (Accessed January 26, 2010)
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| Great Seal | Find out more... | 1891 1957 |
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| Flag | Find out more... | 1907 | ||||
| Bird | Mountain bluebird (Sialia arctcia) | 1931 | ||||
| Flower | Syringa (Philadelphus lewisii) | 1931 | ||||
| Song | "Here We Have Idaho," sometimes referred to as "Our Idaho," music by Sallie Hume Douglas, verses by Albert J.Tompkins, and chorus by McKinley Helm. | 1931 | ||||
| Tree | White pine (Pinus monticola) | 1935 | ||||
| Stone or gem | Star garnet | 1967 | ||||
| Horse | Appaloosa | 1975 | ||||
| Fossil | Hagerman horse fossil (Species Equus simplicidens, originally described as Plesippus shoshonensis) | 1988 | ||||
| American folk dance | Square dance | 1989 | ||||
| Fish | Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) | 1990 | ||||
| Insect | Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) | 1992 | ||||
| Fruit | Huckleberry (Vaccinium sp.) | 2000 | ||||
| Vegetable | Potato | 2002 | ||||
| Raptor | Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) | 2004 | ||||
| Language | English | 2007 | ||||
| Amphibian | Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) | 2015 | ||||
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Additional Information
State Symbols
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from the Idaho State Historical Society.
Idaho
Facts and Symbols
Elaine A. Kule
Idaho Facts and Symbols, by Elaine A. Kule. 24 pages. Publisher: Capstone Press; Rev Upd edition (August 2003) Reading level: Grades 3-4. Interest level: Grades 3-9. Perfect for report writing! Easy-to-read text covers major Idaho symbols such as the state flag, seal, bird, tree, flower, animal, and more. A "Fast Facts" section highlights the state's capital city, largest city, physical size, population, natural resources, farm products, and primary manufactured goods. Also included are full-page maps that introduce the concept of the map key, which is great for teaching map-reading skills.
State Names, Seals
Flags and Symbols
Benjamin F. Shearer
Barbara S. Shearer
State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols, by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer. 544 pages. Greenwood Press; 3 Sub edition (October 30, 2001) This is one of the best, and most comprehensive, books we could find about the official state names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitols, flowers, trees, birds, songs, and miscellaneous designations of each state. This, coupled with the 1938 Shankle book, formed the basis of our symbol library. If you're serious about your states symbols, you'll want to have this book and the one below. This book also contains information about state holidays, license plates, sports teams, universities and other trivia.
State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers, and Other Symbols, by George Earlie Shankle. 522 pages. Reprint Services Corp; Revised edition (June 1971) Reprint of the 1938 revised edition. The first comprehensive book about our state symbols! From the preface: "This book grew out of the desire of its author to know, about his native state, a great many facts which he found exceedingly difficult to obtain. After three years of research in the Library of Congress, he is able to give to the public this storehouse of information, which could have been gathered from not library less fertile in source material..."
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