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Gold Mining Shaped Idaho Territory and State’s Growth
The article recounts the 1860s North Idaho gold rushes sparked by Pierce and others, opening mining on the Clearwater and Salmon rivers. It covers early exploration, cross-border tensions with Nez Perce lands, South Fork and Newsome districts, salmon river bars, and law shaping mining rights, plus living costs and wages in Florence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Lewis and Clark
Nez Perce
North Fork
Clearwater
Clearwaters
Columbia
Pacific Coast
United States
David Thompson
Lake Pend Oreille
Thompson
Clarks Fork
Donald MacKenzie
Lower Clearwater
St. Louis
Henry Harmon Spaulding
Pacific Northwest
Lapwai
Kamiah
Spalding
Whitman
Clearwater Nez Perce
Willam Craig
Hudson's Bay Company
Boiser
California
Francois Finler
Deer Lodge Valley
Montana
E. D. Pierce
Pierce
Wisianacga
Martin
Salmon
Coeur d'Alene
Wisiamaega
Wissanaega
Walla Walla
Billos
Orofino Creek
William F. Bassett
Canal Gulch
Wala Pared
Orofino
Reece
J Marion More
Newsome Creek
Clearwater Station
Newsome
Salmon River
Camas Prairie
Slate Creek
Meadow Creek
Sand Creek
Elk City