Blistering sun. Strong winds. Crackling-dry woods. The summer of 1910 was that bad in Idaho and Montana. Wildfires were rampant and the newly instituted U.S. Forest Service was scrambling to stay ...

When mining began in 1886, Wallace’s population was 500; at its peak, in 1940, when some 200 mines were operating (quartz, gold, silver, copper, zinc), the population peaked at 4000, but, with ...