Idaho’s agricultural economy emerged through the work of successive immigrant groups responding to opportunity created by ...

Immigrant groups played distinct but overlapping roles in shaping Idaho’s early economy, from Chinese miners and market ...

A ghost town in southwest Idaho continues to draw visitors because of its rich history. Silver City began as a mining town in 1864 and remains inhabited today.

Gold had been discovered in the Sawtooth Mountains. It was 1879, thirty years after the California Gold Rush, and dozens of people from the southern United States, had come to central Idaho seeking ...

Why are many drawn to old mining towns? Likely for a mix of reasons, including historic and cultural ones. And because these places make visitors feel as though they’ve entered a time capsule. Mining ...