In the 1890s, mining camps sprang up all over the Kootenays and thrived. Prospectors and miners from Idaho, Montana, and other mining centres arrived in droves to reap the harvest of… silver harvest. Capitalists flooded in from Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver, and from investment centres across North America and the world. Peter Smith has authored what many consider to be the most comprehensive chronicle of a wild and wondrous time in our region’s history. Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan …He joins us today.
