Big Burn Collection

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This is a collection-based inquiry kit page. So, a full page could include all of the featured items the Open team selected with some interpretive content around those images plus explanation of the collection/its relevant to teachers.

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The Big Burn Collection is an online exhibit of materials related to the ‘Big Burn’ fires of 1910 that devastated much of Northern Idaho and Northwest Montana. The collection includes photographs, documents, first-person accounts, and oral histories pertaining to the fires and the local and national responses to them.

a large number of cut logs floating in Priest Lake
An image of Wallace burning from the U of I's Big Burn Collection.
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Forest fire aftermath, 1910 - Wallace, street view
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Forest fire aftermath - Wallace, street view.

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Relevant standard

4.SS.1.2.2 Describe the role of fur trading and the discovery of gold and silver in the settlement of Idaho