Thunder Mountain Feature
Mapped Location
Thunder Mountain: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Thunder Mountain
- Feature Type: Feature
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Thunder Mountain
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Thunder Mountain | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Thunder Mountain
References to Thunder Mountain that document the origin of its place name
THUNDER MOUNTAIN, Idaho County.—This is a commanding mountain, the most prominent, locally, of the range, somewhat isolated and detached, around whose peaks electrical displays and thunderstorms were quite frequent. These natural manifestations produced in the Indian that weird and creepy feeling which he attributed to "thunder," and he called this particular mountain "Tome-up," meaning "clouds," and "yag-gi," "crying" or the "place where the clouds are crying." The white man, learning the Indian name for this mountain, adopted its English meaning and called the place "Thunder Mountain."
A Selected Bibliography of Thunder Mountain, Feature
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
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
Last updated: 2016-12-23