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Small mining town west of Driggs rose and fell in 50 years, and now it’s a nearly forgotten piece of Idaho history
DRIGGS – About eight miles west of Driggs at the end of Horseshoe Canyon was once the home of a thriving coal mining town. Sam, named for Henry Floyd Samuels — one of multiple investors of the Brown Bear Mine — was home to about 200 mine workers throughout the 1920s and 30s. They brought their families and built homes. There was a school, a post office and a store.
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