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This virtual tour explores Prohibition across the Intermountain West through five key sites. The Mint Bar in Sheridan, Wyoming, embodied cowboy defiance. Kemmerer, Wyoming’s immigrant-fueled mining…

In the summer of 1910, the largest fire in American history raged across the Idaho-Montana border, destroying roughly three million acres. What would become known as the “Big Burn” informed the public…

Over a century ago, streetcars dominated American cities. They were the primary means of transportation urban Americans utilized, and their expansion was instrumental in shaping the development of…

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Intermountain Histories is a free website and mobile app that curates the histories of sites and events around the Intermountain West regions of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Discover the histories of the region’s peoples, places, institutions, events, cultures, and more. Using an interactive GPS-enabled map, you can take virtual or physical walking tours of historic sites. As your personal tour guide, Intermountain Histories provides historical information, photographs and images, documentary videos, audio interviews, oral histories, bibliographic citations, and other resources as you explore.