Burke, Idaho: Wedged between mountains, the Silver Valley mine town’s history of rich resources still echoes down the canyon

Spokane public library photo

Burke, Idaho, in 1892.

Crammed in a narrow canyon of North Idaho’s Silver Valley, in perhaps one of the most inconvenient but also beautiful places for a hub of human habitation, are the rusted remains of a once-lively mountain mine town.

Among the most famous ghost towns of the Inland Northwest, Burke has long attracted seekers of fortune, adventure and even the supernatural. Rich deposits of silver and lead were first discovered there in the 1880s, spurring a rapid boom of mining and development, the remnants

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