Shoshone County, an original county
"ESTABLISHED 1864. COUNTY SEAT Wallace. Shoshone County is named for a southern Idaho Indian tribe. The county originally was created in Washington Territory in January of 1861 and included the Shoshoni Indian country in southern Idaho and western Wyoming. Its pre-sent boundaries took shape in 1909 after a number of divisions. Mountain men traveled through the county in the early 1800's, and Catholic missionaries were there in the 1840's and 1850's. Captain John Mullen constructed a road of sorts through the county in 1860-61. The discovery of lead, zinc, and silver in 1884 near present-day Kellogg drew a heavy population to the area. A narrow-gauge train was constructed to Wallace in 1887. Labor-management troubles flared in the Coeur d'Alenes in 1890's. Since the 1884 discovery, billions of dollars worth of minerals have been taken from the Coeur d'Alenes, in which are the largest lead and silver mines in the United States." - "The Idaho Almanac," 1977 Edition, State of Idaho. map
Langley's 1876 Directory
Hawley's 1920 History
Sunshine Mine Disaster, 1972
Sunshine Mine Disaster Casualties
May Arkwright Hutton - "The woman suffrage leader and political activist grew up in Ohio and came west to the Coeur d'Alene mining area as a young woman. First as a saloon cook, then a boarding house owner, she became known as the best cook in the Coeur d'Alenes. There she met locomotive engineer, Levi W. Hutton (1860-1928), whom she married in 1887. Theirs was a classic American rags to riches story. The Huttons and their partners owned the Hercules Mine, which eventually produced enough silver and lead to make them millionaires." - continued (off-site)
News
1919, Rathdrum Tribune, The Success Mine at Wallace, following the Hercules and Tamarack mines, closed for undefinite period
Photos
c. 1889. "A miner prospector at home.Stereograph showing prospector Archie Smith on the porch of his cabin, Eagle Creek, Murray, Idaho. Created: Wallace, Idaho : T.N. Barnard, publisher, [ca. 1889]. Library of Congress
1910, Grand Forks Street and Anheuser Hotel, Avery
Hercules Mill c.1917
Ron Roizen's blog, from Wallace
1910 Forest Fire Links
1910 Fire Commemoration Site at www.fs.usda.gov
"When The Mountains Roared", The History of the 1910 Forest Fires, Idaho and Western Montana by
Elers Koch at books.google.com
Bio of Ed Pulaski, (1868-1931), inventor of the pulaski fire fighing tool
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