IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY REFERENCESERIES
where mining had to stop earlier. With a large mining area, Boise Basin offered a lot of country for prospectors to examine. More than twice as many mines showed up in Boise Basin than had come to Florence in 1862, and the rush still was on in 1864. Even after the big summer population had begun to clear out in the fall of 1863, Boise Basin ...