“A Macabre History of Boise” tour with idahistory! Mark and Jeff specialize in finding out subject specific history and giving fantastic tours with their findings. If there’s a question in history, they know how to get answers. (You can hire them to do it!) They totally nerd out over history and it’s the coolest. We reached out to them about a possible theboisebubble podcast episode about the seedy underbelly history of Boise. But of course we had to go on the official tour as well. We had so much fun walking around downtown Boise hearing about murders and vigilante attacks and rumored haunting. When talking about a city “one must focus on the everyday sorts…including the misunderstood, misrepresented, and the vile!  In the past, Boise has been painted as a cozy and orderly town where ambitious pioneers prospered despite the isolation of their settlement.    This, in some ways, is true. Yet there are gritty, sordid, and tragic elements to Boise’s past, often subtracted from the hi...