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During the 1910 fires, fire fighters hopping off a train here at two in the morning wondered, "why anyone bothered to give this spot a name."
In fact, Adair started out several years earlier as a boisterous railroad construction tent camp housi…
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The Creel was occupied by two of President Hoover's Chief Aids, Larry Richey, a former F.B.I. agent, was assigned to guard the President and became his personal "secretary" or manager. He assumed great responsibility for the detailed arrangements …
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An astonishing contraption called "The Traveler", a giant rolling crane, erected Kelly and Clear Creek Trestles in record time.
The Milwaukee decided to build Kelly and Clear Creek Trestles out of steel right From the beginning.
Horse and mu…
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The forest fires of August, 1910, burned millions of acres in Idaho, Montana and Washington. On the night of August 20, engineer Johnnie Mackedon, returning from a trip to St. Paul Pass, found the Falcon siding on fire. Over one hundred terrified …
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Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald of England was a frequent guest of President Hoover. The "Press" of that day popularly envisioned these two peace loving leaders sitting on a log in the Camp Hoover area scrapping the navies of the world. After the s…
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One of the largest forest fires in the history of the United States
...swept over Idaho and Montana on August 20 and 21, 1910, including the area where you now stand. The fire burned three million acres, destroyed eight billion board feet of ti…
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Wood to Steel
The Milwaukee Road built temporary wood trestles at all but Kelly Creek and Clear Creek. Fire danger prompted the railroad to immediately begin replacing the wooden structures with earth-filled embankments or building steel bridge…
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It's nature's "fault" this tunnel is closed?
Several major geologic fault lines run under these mountains. The mountainside here is slowly shifting along a fault line into the right side of this tunnel, collapsing it.
The tunnel runs through…
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Although Camp Hoover was rustic, it was comfortably furnished with a mixture of styles. The Hoovers had many Navajo rugs which they used throughout their cabin. Above is a sunporch and below the Hoovers' bedrooms.