Mike, North Idaho is a tough place to make a "good go of it."
For a good share of the 70's, Idaho's drinking age was 19, while a few miles across the border in WA, the age was still 21. WSU students would flock to Moscow for a night of partying. I'm surprised there weren't more deaths on the Moscow-Pullman highway. Of course, I'm not telling you anything new.
I worked at the FS work center in Clarkia on an IR Fire crew and some of the boys, particularly those from ND, were fascinated with digging garnets at Emerald Creek-be interesting to know how it got the name Emerald Creek, as opposed to perhaps, Garnett Creek! Anyway, after a few summers, they had a nice collection of rough garnetts, which they took to Moscow to have cut into stones. Beautiful semi-precious gems! Not sure what they ever did with them, maybe had them made into jewelry for someone special.
Sorry, I've kind of diverted this thread a bit.
Have a great Thanksgiving day-we have much to be thankful for.
