Plummer road-agent caches, Lewiston country

Before Montana hanged him, Henry Plummer ran the roads out of Lewiston in the early 1860s, when it was the jump-off for the Clearwater and Salmon River diggings. His road agents took gold off packers and stages for two years, and the arithmetic never closed: far more went missing than was ever recovered. Cache stories cling to the old grades and river crossings from Lewiston up toward Pierce.