Idaho City, Idaho
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Idaho City is a town in, and the county seat of, Boise County, Idaho, United States, located about 36 miles northeast of Boise. The population was 466 at the 2020 census.
Streetside in Idaho City in 2005
Idaho City, 1925
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in 2004
Polly Bemis
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Polly Bemis was a Chinese American pioneer who lived in Idaho in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her story became a biographical novel titled Thousand Pieces of Gold, which was adapted into a 19
Idaho City, Idaho
…as tourists, the 1870 census reported at 1,751 Chinese who were nearly half of city residents. Annie Lee was one legendary Idaho city woman who like Polly Bemis, escaped from sexual slavery. She escaped from a member of the Yeong Wo Company in the 1870s to Boise to marry her lover, another Chinese man. Charged…
Polly Bemis wearing her wedding dress in 1894.
Polly with her horses Nellie and Julie, Feb 6, 1910
Charles and Polly Bemis
Charles Bemis