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,...
Newspapers from the Roosevelt and Thunder Mountain area tells interesting stories, and describes area businesses that were later destroyed by the mudslide and flood. First page describes "The Golden Goal" of a miner which was to proceed at all...
An Idaho City citizen posed next to a wall of tools and equipment. Included in the array are miners lamps, gold pan, hatchet, hand saw, pick, snow shoes, hat, rope, deer antlers, and rifle scabbard.
This drawing was created by Charles Ostner. He created the gold gilded George Washington statue that is now in the Idaho Statehouse. It was presented to Idaho Territory on January 8 1869 and dedicated to the Pioneers of Idaho. This is a copy of Mr....
A-Grant Lumber Co; B-Interior of St. Maries Drug store; C-Cedar Creek Placer Mining Co. panning gold; D-St. Maries street view; E-Kootenai Co. State Bank and Pearson Mercantile Co. street view.
Founded late in the fall before the big rush to Thunder Mountain in the beginning of 1902, Roosevelt soon became the leading camp in the new mining district. Thousands of men, having heard that Thunder Mountain was destined to be the biggest gold...
The old Boise Trail passed between the two points marked ""X"". Hells Canyon is behind or west of this mountain. A little to the north and east is ""Dry Diggings"" where much gold was found and ""picked up"" as there was no water for the usual type...
