Research
Preservation
Preservation means saving the records and evidence of the people who lived and built these frontier mining areas; it means having reverence for our ancestors’ actions, struggles, successes, failures, and the knowledge we can gain from their examples.
Fostering the Pioneer Spirit
Individualism, almost to the point of being antisocial; a bit of lawlessness; an antipathy to direct control; a keen sense of justice; a strong hatred of those who betrayed their trust; a lively sympathy for the debtor and the laborer; a love of democracy in government; a buoyancy in outlook; and restlessness.
Jarbidge
Our first trip to Jarbidge was based on trepidation. What would we find in this remote and challenging to get to little town? Its mining history exceeded our dreams and is on the top of our list of places we are working to document and preserve actively. Come explore these mines carved into the rhyolite…
Global Migrations Project 