The biographies and keepsakes of the early settlers have been preserved and celebrated by the Lemhi County residents since the turn of the twentieth century. The 1866 strike by a group of tenacious gold miners helped to establish a regional community. Led by John Rees, Philip Rand, E.H. Casterlin, and Ralph Irvin, the first Lemhi County Historical Society was formed in the early 1900’s in an effort to tell Lemhi County’s history.