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09/19/2025

HALLOWEEN NIGHT 🎃 Peg Leg Annies will be carving up a rug, playing the spookiest batch of Idaho mountain tunes down at Barbarian Downtown Beer Bar. 7-9 p.m.

09/17/2025

Clayton, ID – 1920s

📷: Skip Myers/Idaho History 1800 to Present

#1920

09/15/2025

White K**b Mine, ID – 1916

Pictured here, the White K**b copper mine located near Mackay, Idaho.

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09/10/2025

Kendrick, ID – 1897

Pictured here, Main Street in the town of Kendrick, 1897. Charles McKeever can be seen seated second from left. The dentist’s name in Kendrick in 1953 was McKeever.

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09/09/2025

Bone, ID – 1910

Believe it or not, there is actually a town called Bone, Idaho. In 1910, Orin or Orion Yost Bone thought the place needed a general store, so he moved a schoolhouse building from Birch Creek and started a business— the Bone Store and Post Office (1917 - 1950). The community primarily grew wheat. Bone finally received telephone service in 1982.

To get to Bone, you have to go through Ammon just outside of Idaho Falls directly east of Firth, Idaho.

📷📝: Skip Myers/Idaho History 1800 to Present

#1910

09/08/2025

I see a couple of shows coming up this week 👀

THURS 9/11 5-8pm
SAT 9/13 3-6pm

09/05/2025

Dewey Mine, ID – 1903

Pictured here is the Dewey Mine at Idaho’s Thunder Mountain district in 1903. This was one of the West’s most remote and difficult to access mining locations. Transporting the materials and equipment required to build this mine was described in a 1901 report:

“Supplies and machinery are freighted to Bear Valley, about 100 miles above Boise, where they are transported 80 miles further to the mines. To one who has not been over the route no conception of the difficulties encountered can be had. Every pound of freight has cost the operators 6.25 cents per pound, or $125 per ton, and it is safe to say that the transportation charges have greatly exceeded the first cost of the invoices.”

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09/04/2025

Gooding, ID – 1909

📷: Skip Myers/Idaho History 1800 to Present

#1909

08/25/2025

Stierman’s Stage Station, ID – 1860s

Pictured here, the Stierman Stage Station near the confluence of Grimes Creek and Mores Creek between Boise and Idaho City.

William Joseph Stierman was born in Datteln, Germany on July 14, 1828. William immigrated to the United States in 1847.

In 1850, He was mining in the Calaveras District, California and living with other men who were miners. In June of 1860 he was in Township 1, Mariposa, California.

William Joseph Stierman took for his bride, Anna Margaret Otten in May of 1860 in Mariposa, California. Anna was born in Oerel, Lower Saxony, Germany on January 12, 1833 and died at the Stierman Ranch, Idaho on Sept 24, 1886. She was interred in the Old Pioneer Cemetery in Idaho City, Boise, Idaho.

A few years later, in 1862, he was in Idaho City, Boise, Idaho working as a miner.

Mr. Stierman and family resided in early days at the old toll-gate, on the Basin road, near the head of Spanish gulch, three miles from Idaho City, and afterwards moved to what is known as the Stierman ranch, on the Boise road, ten miles below Idaho City. The ranch was located at More’s Creek junction, where More’s Creek runs into Grimes Creek. This is where he constructed the Stierman Stage Station in conjunction with their family home. Beside running the stage station, Willian continued farming and mining. The stage station was known to the stage riders for the meals served there.

📷📝: Hugh Hartman/Idaho History 1800 to Present

08/18/2025

Oakley, ID – Unknown Year

Lots of homesteaders descended on the Oakley Basin. Here one family is shown in front of their log home. Homesteading proved popular at the end of the 19th and first of the 20th Centuries where pioneers received free land in exchange for proving up the property.

In 1909, the government built the Oakley Dam. At the time, it was the largest earth filled dam in the U.S., and cost $1.5 million to build. Fast forward to 1984, and unusually high snow storms threatened the dam. Thanks to a quickly developed canal system, disaster was averted and excess water was diverted.

The community also had its own newspaper called “The Oakley Herald” which Charlie Brown managed from 1918 through 1961. He described his publication as “A first class newspaper, entered as a second class matter, in a third class post office.”

📷📝: Skip Myers/Idaho History 1800 to Present

08/15/2025

Bayhorse, ID – 1880s

Bayhorse’s peak years were during the 1880s and 1890s when the hillsides were dotted with cabins, and the town included numerous saloons, boarding houses, assay offices, banks, a stone Wells Fargo building, a post office, six beehive kilns to make charcoal for the smelters, several ore and timber mills, and two cemeteries. The town’s population reached a high of about 300 residents.

The Ramshorn Mine remained productive until 1888, when other mines also declined. By 1896, the beehive kilns were abandoned, and in 1889, the town was struck by a fire that destroyed several buildings. Over the next decade, more mines closed, and people began to leave the area. By 1915, all mining operations had ceased, and Bayhorse had become a ghost town.

📷: Land of the Yankee Fork State Park

08/14/2025

Landore, ID – 1920

In 1898, Thomas G. Jones established a townsite here that he named “Landore” (meaning “land of ore”) after his home town in Wales. In 1900, the road on the far side of the creek was built over the divide and down to Bear Creek, and it made for a shorter trip from the mines to Council. The shorter route caused Landore to replace Cuprum as the dominant town in the mining district, and a number of Cuprum and Decorah businesses moved to Landore in Adams County.

Landore eventually had a newspaper, a post office, several stores and hotels, a big copper smelting plant, and the luxury of long-distance telephone service. A school was built a short distance down Indian Creek from the town. It has been claimed that Landore had a peak population of 1,000, and it is said that between 5,000 and 6,000 people once lived within a 7-mile radius of Landore.

By 1916, the mining boom had begun to fade. That year half of Landore burned down when the postmaster went to sleep with a candle burning beside his bed. Finally, by 1920 the town was virtually deserted, and the post office was closed.

📷: Idaho State Historical Society
📝: VoiceMap

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