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2 unusual facts about Vardis Fisher


Vardis Fisher

Until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he favored an America First stance, hoping to keep the U.S. out of World War II.

Fisher also taught as a summer professor at Montana State University (1932–1933) in Bozeman.


Canyon County, Idaho

Some sources attribute the name to the canyon of the Boise River near Caldwell, while western writers John Rees and Vardis Fisher believed it was named for the Snake River canyon, which forms a natural boundary with Owyhee County to the south and west.


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