One hundred fifty years ago, George Jackson found gold near the confluence of Clear Creek and Chicago Creek, setting off the Colorado gold rush and the founding of Idaho Springs. Wednesday ...

Explore Idaho's mining history beginning around 1860 and ghost town heritage. In the 1860's thousands of gold seekers poured into Idaho, intent upon striking it rich. They built cities and mills ...

Provided by Arthur Hart Since February is being celebrated across the nation as Black History ... Idaho. Other black free men came west as fur trappers in the decades that followed. The gold rush ...

A couple of years ago, the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office pulled ... Scott McIntosh/[email protected] Idaho’s gold rush came a little bit after the gold rushes of California ...

South-central Idaho’s rail center since 1882 when trains reached here, Shoshone has a historic district of ... on their way to California. A gold rush visitor on July 14, 1849, said “you ...

Dave Turin first became a familiar face to TV viewers thanks to “Gold Rush,” the hit Discovery ... s voice-over explanations of some of the historical context. In his travels, Turin meets ...