The city was named for Jim Wardner, 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; he published his autobiography in 1900 and died in El Paso, Texas in 1905.[5][6][7]In 1892, and again in 1899, angry union miners converged on the Bunker Hill mineduring confrontations with mine owners.Hard rock miners in Shoshone County protested wage cuts with a strike in 1892. After several lost their lives in a shooting warprovoked by discovery of a company spy, the U.S. army forced an end to the strike.Hostilities erupted once again in 1899 when, in response to the company firing seventeen men for joining the union, the miners dynamited the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill. Again, lives were lost, and the army intervened.The gondola for the Silver Mountain ski resort passes over the town.
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