Editing Wardner, Idaho (section)

==History==
The city was named for Joe<ref name=meany>{{cite book |last=Meany |first=Edmond S. |author-link=Edmond S. Meany |date= 1923|title= Origin of Washington Geographic Names|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ct4BAAAAMAAJ|location= |publisher= University of Washington Press|page= 23|isbn=9780598974808}}
</ref> or Jim Wardner,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0a9WAAAAIBAJ&pg=7263%2C1242523 | title=Folklore Refuted by Early Settler | work=[[The Spokesman-Review]] | date=18 October 1965 | access-date=23 April 2015 | pages=5}}</ref> an early promoter of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in the 1880s and a seller of corner lots in the city. Born in [[Wisconsin]] in 1846, he held various occupations in Arizona, California, Utah, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Washington state. After his time in the Silver Valley of Idaho, he followed the mining booms to [[South Africa]], [[British Columbia]], and the [[Klondike Gold Rush|Klondike]]; he published his autobiography in 1900 and died in [[El Paso, Texas]] in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7098|title=Profile for Wardner, Idaho|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=2010-05-28}}</ref><ref>"Idaho for the Curious", by Cort Conley, ©1982, {{ISBN|0-9603566-3-0}}, Backeddy, p.471-473</ref>

In 1892, and again in 1899, angry union miners [[Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute|converged on the Bunker Hill mine]] during confrontations with mine owners.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

Hard rock miners in Shoshone County protested wage cuts with a strike in 1892. After several [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892|lost their lives in a shooting war]] provoked by discovery of [[Labor spies|a company spy]], the U.S. army forced an end to the strike. [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899|Hostilities erupted once again]] in 1899 when, in response to the company firing seventeen men for joining [[Western Federation of Miners|the union]], the miners dynamited the [[Bunker Hill Mining Company|Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill]]. Again, lives were lost, and the army intervened.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

The [[Gondola lift|gondola]] for the [[Silver Mountain (Idaho)|Silver Mountain]] ski resort passes over the town.