Hemingway Memorial - Ketchum
1939Ernest 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.
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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.
Union Pacific Railroad built Sun Valley in 1936, inventing the chairlift and destination skiing in America.
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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…
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.
Union Pacific Railroad built Sun Valley in 1936, inventing the chairlift and destination skiing in America.
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,…
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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