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The hotel that Judge McBride stayed in, the Idaho Hotel, still stands today. It's open from June to September and offers all of the amenities of a late 19th century hotel, including indoor plumbing!
It's got an interesting story, too. The hotel was built in 1863 in Ruby, Idaho, but in 1866, Silver City was named the county seat of Owyhee County, so the owners took the hotel apart, timber by timber, moved it by sledge over the ice and snow to Silver City and rebuilt it in time for Christmas.
By the 1890s, it was quite a spectacular example of Victorian construction, but after the gold and silver played out, Silver City was eventually abandoned and by the late 1940s, the hotel closed. Somehow it escaped demolition, was sold in the early 1970s and restored and reopened. My understanding is that it's still a work in progress, but for about a hundred bucks a night, you can get a nice room in the best hotel in town...the only hotel in town!
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Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop - Gus McCrae
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