Sawtooth City (historical) Blaine County, Idaho
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Sawtooth City (historical): The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
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General information on Sawtooth City (historical)
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Sawtooth City (historical)
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Sawtooth City (historical) | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Sawtooth City (historical)
References to Sawtooth City (historical) that document the origin of its place name
SAW TOOTH MOUNTAINS.— These mountains were named by the immigrants during the 1860s and were so called because of the jagged peaks along the range, which, when observed along the sky line, resembled a huge saw blade lying on its back.
A Selected Bibliography of Sawtooth City (historical), Blaine County, Idaho
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Idaho's bonanza years ghost towns, their history and how to find them by Rex Painter, Dorothy Povey
Rex Painter and Dorothy Povey’s Idaho's Bonanza Years: Ghost Towns, Their History and How to Find Them serves as both a pioneer chronicle and a physical navigational guide to the abandoned mining settlements scattered across the Gem State. The narrative maps the rugged, isolated topography that dictated Idaho's late-nineteenth-century mineral rushes, tracing routes through the steep, timbered gulches of the central Salmon River Mountains southward to the arid, high-elevation basins of the Owyhee range. By detailing the rapid rise and inevitable collapse of these remote boomtowns—often built precariously along narrow canyon walls and deep within unforgiving alpine valleys—the authors illustrate the extreme environmental challenges prospectors faced in extracting wealth from the state's formidable interior. Ultimately, the text captures the transient geographical footprint of resource extraction in the inland Pacific Northwest, demonstrating how the harsh physical realities of these isolated mountainous enclaves eventually reclaimed the ambitious pioneer architecture of Idaho's gold and silver rushes.
46 pages illustrations, map 25 cm
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Blaine County
- Barite
- City of Bellevue
- Boulder
- Broadford
- Bullion
- City of Carey
- Cathedral Pines
- Clarendon Hot Springs
- Cream Can Junction
- DeWoff
- Doniphan
- Easley Hot Springs
- Elkhorn Village
- Galena
- Gannett
- Gimlet
- City of Hailey
- Hawley
- City of Ketchum
- Leduc (historical)
- Magic City
- Magic Resort
- Picabo
- Sawtooth City (historical)
- Smith Springs
- Stanton Crossing
- City of Sun Valley
- Tikura
- Triumph
- Wapi
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2016-12-23