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Boise,
Idaho
Situated in Idaho's southwest
corner, the appealing capital city of Boise (population 200,000)
sits on a high plain (elevation 2,700 feet) along the Boise
River. With mountains to the east, it is a scenic city and got
its start as a fort, first built by the Hudson Bay Company in the
1830s, and then after being abandoned, re-built by the U.S. Army
during the Civil War. Is it a great place to retire?
Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho Set amid breathtaking
scenery, cozy and hip Coeur d'Alene boasts water and mountain
recreation, a very good medical center, a healthy lifestyle and a
reasonable cost of living.
Sandpoint,
Idaho
Beautiful, safe and with a bit of
a rugged resort feeling, Sandpoint is snuggled along Lake Pend Oreille.
It has also been called the most beautiful small town in
America. Is it a great place to retire?
The State of Idaho
Idaho is a sparely populated state with only 1.5 million
residents. Meriwether and Clark came here
in 1805 and 1806 when it was part of the Oregon Territory, and
England was part owner until the Oregon Treaty in 1846.
Fourteen years later, Mormons established the first real Idaho
settlement at Franklin.
Orofino Creek was the site of Idaho's first gold
strike, and in 1860, the rush was on! Prospectors swarmed,
had a boisterous time and then left ghost towns in their wake.
During the 1870s, settlers, the U.S. forces, and Bannock,
Sheepeater and Nez Perce bands of Native Americans battled fought
for ownership of the land. The lumber harvesting and mining
industries are still important to Idaho, and it has major exports
of antimony, silver, cobalt, lead, garnet, vanadium, phosphate
rock, mercury and zinc.
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