Join us tonight at 6:30 PM for a presentation by Tom Blanchard (as part of our “Explore Earth” exhibit) on the political and environmental ramifications of early mining in Idaho. Then, to satisfy your curiosity, “dig” into one of these books to learn even more about the Gem State:
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The Ballyhoo Bonanza: Charles Sweeny and the Idaho Mines by John Fahey
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
Cabal of Death: Harry Orchard and His Associates in Murder in the Western Mining Wars by Robert G. Grimmett
Chinese Gold Mining at the Mon-Tung Site in the Snake River Canyon by Ronald L. James
Cobalt: The Legacy of the Blackbird Mine by Russell Steele
Coeur D’Alene Diary: The First Ten Years of Hardrock Mining in North Idaho by Richard G. Magnuson
The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine by Gregg Olsen
For Wood River or Bust: Idaho’s Silver Boom of the 1880s by Clark C. Spence
Idaho’s Bonanza Years: Ghost Towns, Their History and How to Find Them by Rex Painter
Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1981 by Katherine G. Aiken
Mining Idaho’s History: Metal Mining in Idaho 1860-1960: A Mining Context for Idaho by Kathryn L. McKay
Southern Idaho Ghost Towns by Wayne C. Sparling
The Sunshine Mine Disaster by James Brock
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