Excerpts: This report of recent settlement on the cut-over lands of northern Idaho presents the results of one segment of a broad study of migration to the Western States from 1930 to 1938, carried on by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The areas selected for study in northern Idaho are representative of the better cut-over lands in the ponderosa and white pine regions of northern Idaho and northeastern Washington. A detailed study was made, in cooperation with the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, of 189 families who had settled in rural areas in Benewah and Boundary Counties. These counties were selected because of fairly heavy concentration of recent rural settlers. Reports were obtained from any such settlers in these counties that it was possible to contact and obtain records from within the period available for field work. Their approximate locations are shown in Figure 1. It is believed that they represent a reasonably satisfactory cross-section of recent settlers in northern Idaho cut-over areas. As part of the broader studies a survey was made, in cooperation with the Farm Security Administration, in the schools of Idaho to determine the extent of migration; and the character and origins of families who had immigrated from 1930 to 1938.