Many people have important, but little known roles in Idaho history. Here are a couple of guys you’ve probably never heard of who had a positive impact on outdoor recreation in the state.
In 1918, the Thomas family, in the top picture, enjoys a camping trip at Billingsley Creek, near Hagerman. The two family members identified in this photograph are the children—Bob Thomas (on the left in the light colored stocking cap) and his brother Eldred on the right. Billingsley Creek would become a unit of Thousand Springs State Park 84 years later, in 2002. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Thomas brothers would serve the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation—Bob as an Idaho Park and Recreation Board member and Eldred as a member of the RV Advisory committee. In the lower picture Bob, who also served Idaho as a fish and game commissioner, is still wearing a stocking cap in this self-portrait at Farragut State Park around 2000.
In 1918, the Thomas family, in the top picture, enjoys a camping trip at Billingsley Creek, near Hagerman. The two family members identified in this photograph are the children—Bob Thomas (on the left in the light colored stocking cap) and his brother Eldred on the right. Billingsley Creek would become a unit of Thousand Springs State Park 84 years later, in 2002. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Thomas brothers would serve the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation—Bob as an Idaho Park and Recreation Board member and Eldred as a member of the RV Advisory committee. In the lower picture Bob, who also served Idaho as a fish and game commissioner, is still wearing a stocking cap in this self-portrait at Farragut State Park around 2000.
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