Idaho's gold excitement began in 1860 and for many it has never ended. Boom or bust -- adventurous miners scrambled by the hundreds to promising diggings in central and southern Idaho. Today, the names of the old camps stir memories of a great heyday in Idaho's gold and silver rushes ... Silver City ... Wood River and Ketchum ... Pierce ... Boise Basin ... Thunder Mountain. Through more than 100 rare nineteenth-century photographs and dozens of contemporary accounts, Wells brings this exciting period back to life.
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Idaho's gold excitement began in 1860 and for many it has never ended. Boom or bust -- adventurous miners scrambled by the hundreds to promising diggings in central and southern Idaho. Today, the names of the old camps stir memories of a great heyday in Idaho's gold and silver rushes ... Silver City ... Wood River and Ketchum ... Pierce ... Boise Basin ... Thunder Mountain. Through more than 100 rare nineteenth-century photographs and dozens of contemporary accounts, Wells brings this exciting period back to life.
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Fine. Trade paperback. Glued binding, black paper wrappers with pictorial front. xiii & 233 pages with numerous b&w photographs and maps. CONDITION: AS NEW, save for very light shelf-wear to wrappers. Binding square and tight, pages crisp and unmarked. Appears unread. CONTENT: Author gives a detailed history of Idaho's gold excitement that began in 1862 and continues to this day. A fascinating period of boom and bust on the Western frontier with adventurous miners scrambling by the hundreds to promising diggings in central and southern Idaho.
