Silver Linings: The Early Days of Idaho's Silver Valley

[@aprilandrussell]

Thank you for this incredible documentary on the Northern Idaho mining district. One of the best short mining documentaries I have seen.

[@causewaykayak]

What a wonderful short history, beautifully told.

[@jaysonschor]

I lived in smelterville and would ride my bike on the trail daily. So much history. I cant wait to move back.

[@MaryOKC]

My brother lives in Smelterville…you must have be neighbors… 😂

[@FatHalibutz32]

Lead heads... 🤪

[@shannonnansel6451]

My grandpa George Stancik worked at bunker for YEARS. Our valley has a lot of history, for sure

[@stevebrown8368]

My grandpa worked several of these mines from the 30s till he died on the way to the mill in 67. Mom was raised in Osburn and went to Wallace HS. Loved going there when I was a kid.

[@MaryOKC]

Hey Steve…I went to WHS graduated in 79’

[@stevebrown8368]

@@MaryOKC my mom graduated in 53, and got married at St. Alphonsus

[@Mystdragon]

My aunt and uncle Jonny and Evelyn Drager lived in Osburn.

[@GlenMoyer-u7s]

Wow. What a gem!!

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

As a 'kid'e I 'heard' on the news about the "Sunshine Mining Company" disaster in the early 70's, I wrote the name on everything. My Dad to later moved to the area, and was amazed about the name, 'The Sunshine Mining Company', because growing-up, there were huge piles of dirt in our backyard, from me digging tunnels' I actually had signs posted saying; "keep-out SSMC" Hey. . . . . I was ten ! My fireman Dad was usually gone at work. LOL . . . or. . . is that O.K.? smh

[@ogjuggalo4545]

this place is beautiful, i am staying in the old molly b dam motel while its being renovated, i went upto burke earlier and saw all of these places today, i even went past into the mountains on this little dirt unknown dirt road.. there is SOO much history here in the shoshone

[@antongirdeux07]

burke ends at a power station. where is this dirt road?

[@Ohonaboys]

All the way at the top I drove all the way from Montana into Burke and straight through the mountains.

[@71mopartony]

@@antongirdeux07 I went past the power station an camped at Glidden lake....

[@siddthekid5046]

My in-laws are from Kellogg and still live there. My wife and I live in Boise. I absolutely love going up there as much as possible and driving around Harrison, Kellogg, Wallace, Mullan, Burke, Prichard, all those little mining towns. Such a beautiful area and the history there is absolutely awesome. Can't get enough of it and I want to move up there one day, but my wife won't put our kids in school up there. She also hates how... Secluded and racist/ignorant many of the people are (her views). She was born and raised there but as time goes one, she wants to move back less and less. Last time we were up there in June, we visited the Murray cemetery and saw Molly B Dam and many other cools graves. The Lodge Pole Museum is absolutely fascinating. And the Bedroom Goldmine has very good food!

[@bennyh4950]

@@siddthekid5046 I grew up in the Kellogg area, Pinehurst and Sunnyside elementary. Kellogg and. High. My folks owned the old Brandon's Store next to the Snake Pit in enaville. I probably know your in-laws and/or wife. The valley is only a shell of what it was when I lived there from 1970-1984.

[@kathykickingwoman3157]

I was a real estate appraiser in the Spokane Valley...i covered that silver valley area...so beautiful...one of my favorite spots of the NW area

[@kelseymariel2127]

I traced my great grandfather to this area in 1910 when he left his family including 4 kids (my grandfather) to farm potatoes, then become a miner. This is where he died in 1925. Someday I’ll get out there.

[@rosemaryhanderson6122]

My father Joe Ridley lived and worked in the mines. We saw a lot when we went to visit him when my kids were little. He had a couple of friends in jail so he bought them a watermelon and we all walked to the jail so he could deliver it. Sometime in the late 60s.

[@MaryOKC]

I know that last name…I bet my mom knew your dad…seemed Ridley was a name from Murray.

[@wayupnorth9420]

My great great grandpa is buried one grave from Molly be Damned.

[@The427Cammer]

great history lesson. thanks for uploading!

[@Mystdragon]

Was there a different documentary of the mines. I saw one that had my uncle Charles Bratton fighting and my grandpa Richard Bratton was in the crowd. My is aunt Evelyn Drager I'm Kiddy Boys adoptive daughter and I'm Leonard Theodore Nickleby's oldest daughter. Yet he didn't know it till I was 35 lol

[@GottliebGoltz]

I remember driving past Kellog in the 60's & 70's etc and always there would be a large billboard offering employment available. Yup.

[@kimsears9326]

My

[@kimsears9326]

My cousin Kim karst died in The mineshaft in 1979 Kellogg mining I was named after him

[@michaeldean9338]

Thank you, KSPS-PBS :)

[@riverraisin1]

@ 47:40 Look at all those outhouses set up at the edge of the river.

[@davebudrus46]

Privy Row. Watch out a catfish’ll bite you in the beehind!

[@rorymunroe3771]

thank you Dr. Aitken...what a sweetheart you are..

[@rorymunroe3771]

pardon me princess "AIKEN" what a sweetie

[@micheletwilkinson-penningt6940]

Very good doc

[@wayupnorth9420]

My great great grandfather is buried in Murray. The rest of us are buried in Mullan. There won’t be any more of us buried there after me. End of the line. The Ski Mountain in Kellog was called “Jackass” til the 1980s. Aww, I’ll just shut up and let ya watch the video.

[@rusty1187]

Ah, Yes.... The Jackass Ski Bowl!!!

[@richgaffney4455]

Grew up in Kellogg. My mother graduated from Kellogg Hi School and I graduated from there also, different buildings. I flunked Idaho history because oral history and politically correct book history didn't agree. It was a sportsman paradise. Hunting, fishing and skiing. We skied at Lookout Pass. Jackass ski bowl wasn't built yet. This was in the 50's.

[@jamesbenedict7206]

Mining the miners,quickest way to get rich!

[@MaryOKC]

Yip…cuz I never saw a rich miner.

[@rusty1187]

Lost friends in the sunshine mine disaster....

[@goldminer71188]

I’m so sorry my friend. I was an underground gold miner for 26 years down in Elko Nevada. I also lost several friend over the years. May god bless all the good men that have given there all underground. It take a special person to be an underground miner. RIP my friends. We are a special breed. People don’t understand what we go through on a daily basis for our family.

[@dickhead9482]

From what I remember the Italians worked harder then anyone else never sitting down or giving up

[@lesliekendall5668]

The a in placer is pronounced like the a in cat, not play.

[@ScoopDogg]

UK here, Jealous, although I have Yorkshire, I would swap

[@coderedcodered8161]

last class WAHI 2003

[@joshgriffin747]

Isnt it amazing how we just threw our roots down in the most plush and beautiful places in the world ? I believe that the Native people that were already there for thousands of years in harmony with nature , thought even more highly of the land of their ancestral spirits then we could ever over ride with our own new " history ". These old timers had a free for all thanks to greedy ambitious businessmen . At least they were providing work for people. When those mines ,mills,, & logging companies shut down so did the entire comunity. Now the decendents of mentioned wealthy white men have pawned american jobs to overseas labor . Those must have been the most fulfilling times to be an american.

[@rapturebound197]

Greed, waste, excesses and being driven by personal profit \ pleasure at the expense of others are not, and were never, exclusive to any race, color or gender.

[@siddthekid5046]

100%

[@joshgriffin747]

And Joe fffffn biden what a joke !

[@gold-digger6579]

In Africa there were a number of societies and kingdoms which kept slaves, before there was any regular commercial contact with Europeans, including the Asanti, the Kings of Bonny and Dahomey. Find out more in African Slave Owners.

[@gold-digger6579]

From the BBC

[@danielginther4879]

The word 'placer' is pronounced plah-sur not play-sir.

[@gwilson664]

"I don't think they were bothered...". They were bothered!

[@PeggyJame]

“Silver Lining”

[@ilonamiller2194]

Wanted California mining. When does this video end. Should have requested the gold rush 1949 in California

[@YippeeKiYayMrFalcon]

"Idaho" is literally in the title of this video 🤣

[@dickhead9482]

Wardner was an Italian

[@wayupnorth9420]

Placer= Pl-ass-er

[@PeggyJame]

Jim Warden

[@LunarJamaican]

Isn’t that something? 🥲

[@md-ln4fp]

Noah and jackass. Been around for a long time, LOL and never fails to entertain.

[@mechanicman8687]

Plasser. Show show nee

[@michaelmartin4552]

I love this documentary, but oh my. Every time the narrator mispronounces "Placer" it makes my head ache. I have come to accept such mispronunciations from videos from say the UK or Australia, but this is from Idaho. At least there they should know how to pronounce "Placer".

[@Luis_Fernando_Pouliot_Madero]

In the beginning say there were not humans there but after talk about an indian reservation... The sad thing is they mean indians are not humans

[@PeggyJame]

They discovered electricity

[@honeybear200]

For God so loved the world that he gave his ONLY begotten son to die for our sins whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life! Lean on Jesus in these trying times!⛪🙏🙏⛪

[@TheIdahoBeauty]

While interesting and well done, I find it hard to believe that the narrator does not know how to pronounce "placer" as in placer mining. The "a" is short, not long. Has she not heard of Placerville, CA? Having grown up in the valley, it made me grind my teeth hearing her mispronounce it numerous times.

[@richgaffney4455]

I agree with you the mispronouciation of PLACER. I grew up in Kellogg during the 50's and left in '61.

[@i.just.pooted]

screw unions, period!

[@brandoncox5044]

Please, protect the Wolves ☮️🐺 Don't, kill them because they are Native and we just moved on top of their land. #Nottheirfault

[@markvolker1145]

"Immigration discrimination"... Like how the British immigrants hated the Irish, the Irish hated the British, the Germans hated the British, the British hated the Germans, the French hated the British, the British hated the French, they hated the Asians, the Asians hated them so Yeah it wasn't a bunch of white people sitting around singing kumbaya and hating on Asians like they portray. Whether it the Soviet union or China history proves the fact that most people dislike other cultures interfering in their own! PBS you are a total waste of US taxpayers money!*

[@mns8732]

PBS is now an arm of the JBS. Luckily RT is broadcasting so we dont need to listen to this dribble.

[@md-ln4fp]

Noah and jackass. Been around for a long time, LOL and never fails to entertain.