“Joe Feucht when he first landed in Idaho was working in the woods cutting timber for the big lumber company.  He was cutting logs and swamping them down river to a mill.  He was working in the Craig Mountains.  When his mother Lena Feucht got very sick he went back home where he was born..”Leroy” and his mother died. After the funeral he went back to Idaho and took a grant of land on Little Bear Ridge. He was also married at the Leroy church to Magdalena Readerer before he left for Idaho. Joe Feucht built himself a log cabin and cut down some trees to make a garden.  The deer would come in the evening and eat up his garden.  So he would sit up in a tree and kill a deer so the rest of the deer would run away, so they had meat to eat as food was very scarce.  They also had quite a few bear.  The neighbors would get together and kill those for food. Then they moved to Craig Mountains. They had to cross the Snake River and there was no bridge to get across so they had to ford across.”

   “Joe Feucht used to take his children fishing and flower picking in summer in the woods. In the winter they would put hay in the bob sled and all the kids would be sleighriding using horse blankets for cover.  They would also attend church on Sundays riding in the bob sleds.”