Minidoka is not a translation, but one of Burroughs' works with an Idaho-inspired title.  A fairy tale first discovered in 1955, it was not published until 1998, when it was issued by Dark Horse Comics in a hardcover edition.  Burroughs wrote it on scraps of paper, including the letterhead of the Yale Dredging Company, Minidoka, Idaho.  In the introduction to the Dark Horse edition, Robert R. Barrett speculates the tale was written to amuse his brothers' families while they were living in Idaho.  The Idaho Burroughs describes, however, is not the same place we know today.

        "Many erstwhiles since, a portion of Idaho was ruled over by an extremely ill-natured and wicked Brady called Pzvrtjhk."   -- the first sentence of Minidoka

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