The Dynamite Express: The Coeur d'Alene Labor Wars That Shook the Silver Valley
Few chapters in Idaho history are as dramatic as the mining wars of the Coeur d'Alene district — two explosions of violence, in 1892 and 1899, that pitted union miners against mine owners, drew in the governor's militia and federal troops, and ended with one of the most notorious labor bombings in American history.