“The cowboy factor seems to be a common thread in our daily life,” admits Margaret A. Barrett, director of the Bannock County Historical Museum. “We like cowboy boots, horses, rodeos, guns, Country music and pickups (the dirtier, the better—it’s the Idaho dirt in our veins),” she says. Barrett has lived in Pocatello, Idaho—population 54,000—since she was six months old. “Our ties to southeastern Idaho go back to the 1880s, when ancestors from Switzerland homesteaded a
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