Some of the first buildings at Leesburg, Idaho. The photo taken in 1870 by A, F. Thrasher shows a group of men stand on a wooden sidewalk in front of the buildings. One man is mounted on a horse.
Washing out gold using hydraulic mining equipment in the Salmon River Country, Lemhi County, Idaho. Hydraulic mining was done alongside mountains and riverbank.
Fifteen men sitting on a pile of milled lumber at the Bonanza Placer Mine near Leesburg, Lemhi County, Idaho. Men are wearing overalls, shirts, hats, and boots. There is a horse in the background and the landscape is lined with trees.
Monument rected July 17, 1926, at Leesburg, commemorating the discovery of gold in July 1866. The monument was erected by O. E. Kirkpatrick, Leesburg. Two of the women in the group are Mrs. Esther Amonson Pyeatt, and Mrs. Anna Edwards Wright,...
