Editing Ketchum, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:Idaho - Kellogg through Ketchum - NARA - 23939443 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|View of Ketchum, 1941]]
Originally the [[smelting]] center of the Warm Springs mining district, the town was first named Leadville in 1880. The postal department decided that was too common and renamed it for David Ketchum,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n173 174]}}</ref> a local trapper and guide who had staked a claim in the basin a year earlier. Smelters were built in the 1880s, with the Philadelphia Smelter, located on Warm Springs Road, processing large amounts of lead and silver for about a decade.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksvhistoricalsociety.org/history.asp |title=History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128224508/http://www.ksvhistoricalsociety.org/history.asp |archive-date=2012-01-28 |publisher=Ketchum / Sun Valley Historical Society |url-status=usurped |access-date=2012-03-06}}</ref>

After the mining boom subsided in the 1890s, sheepmen from the south drove their flocks north through Ketchum in the summer, to graze in the upper elevation areas of the [[Pioneer Mountains (Idaho)|Pioneer]], [[Boulder Mountains (Idaho)|Boulder]], and [[Sawtooth Range (Idaho)|Sawtooth]] mountains. By 1920, Ketchum had become the largest sheep-shipping center in the [[Western United States|West]]. In the fall, massive flocks of sheep flowed south into the town's livestock corrals at the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]'s railhead, which connected to the main line at [[Shoshone, Idaho|Shoshone]].<ref>"Idaho for the Curious", by Cort Conley, 1982, {{ISBN|0-9603566-3-0}}, p.348-349</ref>

After the development of [[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley]] by the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] in 1936, Ketchum became popular with celebrities, including [[Gary Cooper]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ernest Hemingway |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=www.wikidata.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=97006051 |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/97006051/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=viaf.org}}</ref> Hemingway loved the surrounding area; he fished, hunted, and in the late 1950s bought a [[Ernest and Mary Hemingway House|home]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ernest and Mary Hemingway House |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30641853 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=www.wikidata.org |language=en}}</ref> overlooking the Big Wood River near the city. It was there he committed suicide; he and his wife [[Mary Welsh Hemingway|Mary]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Welsh Hemingway |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3296265 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=www.wikidata.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=76443222 |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/76443222/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=viaf.org}}</ref> his granddaughter, model and actress [[Margaux Hemingway]], are buried in the Ketchum Cemetery. The local elementary school is named in his honor.

Every [[Labor Day]] weekend, Ketchum hosts the Wagon Days festival, a themed carnival featuring Old West wagon trains, narrow ore wagons, and a parade.

The [[Clint Eastwood]] film ''[[Pale Rider]]'' (1985) was partially filmed in the Boulder Mountains near Ketchum.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Maddrey |first1=Joseph |date=2016 |title=The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: The Many Lives of the Western Film |publisher=McFarland |page=184 |isbn=9781476625492}}</ref>

Ketchum is referenced in the song "Ketchum, ID" by indie rock band [[boygenius]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/boygenius-boygenius-ep/|title=boygenius: boygenius EP|website=Pitchfork|language=en|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>