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Ketchum, Idaho

Everything Ketchum is known for

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Music in Ketchum

Songs About Ketchum

Ketchum, ID
boygenius
79%
"TITLE"
Montana Cafe
Hank Williams, Jr.
70%
"Teddy Roosevelt and Hemingway"
Alcohol
Brad Paisley
8%
"I helped Hemingway write like he did"
Legends
Aaron Watson
8%
"Ernest Hemmingway"
Montana Café
Hank Williams, Jr.
6%
"Montana Café, Teddy Roosevelt and Hemingway"
Hemingway
Tayler Holder
5%
"Hemingway"

Artists From Ketchum

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Ketchum

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Ketchum.

History of Ketchum

Hemingway Memorial - Ketchum

1939

Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning author, spent his final years in Ketchum, Idaho, writing, hunting, and fishing in the mountains above Sun Valley. He died at his home there on July 2, 1961.

Sun Valley Lodge

1936

Union Pacific Railroad built Sun Valley in 1936, inventing the chairlift and destination skiing in America.

Everything Near Ketchum

5 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Bald Mountain Hot Springs · 0.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Imagine soaking in hot springs right in the heart of Ketchum. That was once the reality at Bald Mountain Hot Springs. In 1929, Carl E. Brandt, the manager of the J.C. Penney store in Hailey, built the Bald Mountain Hot…

  • Hemingway Memorial - Ketchum · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning author, spent his final years in Ketchum, Idaho, writing, hunting, and fishing in the mountains above Sun Valley. He died at his home there on July 2, 1961.

  • Sun Valley Lodge · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    Union Pacific Railroad built Sun Valley in 1936, inventing the chairlift and destination skiing in America.

  • Homer Pound House · 12.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Right here in Hailey, Idaho, a future literary giant took his first breath. This is the Homer Pound House, birthplace of Ezra Pound. On October 30, 1885, Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Weston welcomed their only child,…

  • Henry Miller House (Bellevue, Idaho) · 17.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    This house is a monument to the boom-and-bust cycle of Idaho's silver mining days. Henry Miller, a savvy investor, bought half ownership of the Minnie Moore mine in 1881 for $10,000. He didn't have to wait long to see a…

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