Burke Canyon
This file appears in: The Gem Mine and the Pinkerton Detective Agency
A photograph of Burke Canyon including the Gem Mine and Union Hall where Pinkerton Agent Charles Siringo went undercover.
Image HG-765-22 courtesy of Wallace District Mining Museum
This file appears in: The Gem Mine and the Pinkerton Detective Agency
The Gem Mine and the Pinkerton Detective Agency
The modern surveillance state casts a long shadow back to the center of silver extraction: the Coeur d’Alene Mining District in northern Idaho during the late nineteenth century. In 1892 Charles Siringo, a Pinkerton agent, ran for his life from the…