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Local Resources
North Custer Museum for Regional History, P.O. Box 776, Challis, ID 83226.
Located on the lower end of Main Street, near intersection with 13th Street
Open all year by appt., call for hours. Phone: (208) 879-2846
Lost River Museum, Box 572, Mackay, ID 83251; 312 Capitol St., Mackay, ID 83251. Phone: (208) 588 - 3133
McGown Museum. Cort Conley in Idaho for the Curious, a Guide (1982) mentions a McGown Museum housed in the old
Custer schoolhouse and ran by the forest service (p. 362). The Idaho Alamanac, 1977, also mentions a Custer Museum.
South Custer County Historical Society, Box 355, Mackay, ID 83521. They have the old printing press of "The Mackay Mine" newspaper.
Exhibits include lots of interesting items, like a horse hair coat. I was told that if a cowboy liked his horse a lot,
when it died he would have it skinned and made into a coat. The coat I saw looked very nice.
A Collection of News about Warren, Idaho compiled by Cheryl Helmers, 1988
They Followed the Glory Trail by Roberta H. Green, has stories about people who lived in the ghost town of Custer
