The sprawling high desert wilderness of southwestern Idaho was virtually unknown to whites in 1863; when Mike Jordan and a band of placer miners dipped their pans into the creek that bears his name and found gold. The electrifying news spread; and the people came. Towns sprang up overnight on the mountaintops. Some disappeared almost as quickly as they had appeared. ldquo;Men needed to work the mines!rdquo; cried Idahorsquo;s newspapers. The word went out; and the miners came from Nevada; California; Colorado; and across the West. Soon the great mines of War Eagle Mountain rivaled Nevadarsquo;s fabled Comstock Lode. With the exception of Silver City; one of Americarsquo;s largest intact ghost towns; the boomtowns; as well as the mines; are gone; however; descendants of the miners remain. Owyhee County is the size of Delaware and Connecticut combinedmdash;7;679 square milesmdash;with a population of only 11;500. It is a rarely visited land of few roads and fewer people; sagebrush desert; deep basalt canyons; romantic vistas; and mysterious mountains that still hide their gold and silver.
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