SILVER CITY, Idaho (AP) — Tucked below the summits of the 8,000-foot-high Owyhee Mountains, sits a once-booming mining town. Today, about 150 years since it was founded, sits Silver City ...

SILVER CITY, Idaho - Anchored to a valley in the middle of the Owyhee Mountains, Silver City stands as an almost untouched testament to Idaho's prospecting past. The country was two years into the ...

Silver City is one of the few old Idaho mining towns that did not burn down or become commercialized into a modern city. The Idaho Hotel is as it was 100 years ago with a few modern amenities.