Small mining community near Challis rose and fell in 30 years, and now it’s one of Idaho’s ghost towns

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 their fortune. Samuel Holman was an attorney who filed one of the first gold claims in the area. He laid out the […]
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