Remember When
Mines of Idaho & Montana
By Emerson Hough in 1918
We may never know how much history remains forever unwritten.
f the beginnings of the Idaho camps there have trickled back into record only brief, inconsequent, and partial stories. The miners who surged this way and that all through the Sierras, the upper Cascades, north into the Selkirks, and thence back again into the Rockies were a turbulent mob. Having overrun all our mountain ranges, following the earlier trails of the traders and trappers, they now recoiled upon themselves and rolled back eastward to meet the advancing civilization of the westbound rails, caring nothing for history and less for the civilized society in which they formerly had lived.
This story of bedlam broken loose, of men gone crazed, by the sudden subversion of all known values and all standards of life, was at first something which had no historian and can be recorded only by way of hearsay stories which do not always tally as to the truth.
The mad treasure-hunters of the California mines, restless, insubordinate, incapable of restraint, possessed of the belief that there might be gold elsewhere than in California, and having heard reports of strikes to the north, went hurrying out into the mountains of Oregon and Washington, in a wild stampede Read more...
PCA Retro Review: They Drive By Night (1940)By Sam Tweedle
PCA reminds you that the world’s best movies are NOT in the new release section at Blockbuster!
They Drive by Night (1940) – One of Hollywood’s stranger melodramas, They Drive By Night features the dangerous lives and loves of the men on the trucking lines, hauling freight and cargo through the darkest nights on what could often be a cruel and lonely roads. Featuring an impressive all star cast including George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan and Ida Lapino, They Drive By Night is an early tribute to the world of the trucker.
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart play Joe and Paul Fabrini, two brothers who drive an independently owned cargo truck. As they go from Read more...
Public and Private: Restoring a Montana Spring CreekBy Verlyn Klinkenborg
A couple of weeks ago, I walked along a spring creek in the upper Madison Valley, just south of the town of Ennis, Mont. As my guide, Jeff Laszlo, explained, the creek is one of the unnamed tributaries of the Madison River, fed by innumerable springs along the valley’s rich bottomland. The creek meanders for miles before it reaches the Madison, gaining water, providing spawning grounds for fish and invaluable wetland habitat for birds. I looked on in disbelief, because the section we were hiking — nearly eight miles of cold, clear waters — did not exist before 2005.
Or rather, it existed until 1951, Read more...