<P> Miners and settlers came to the region after silver deposits were found . It became the second - largest silver mining district in the country, generating both great wealth and extensive environmental contamination and damages . In the 1890s, two significant miners' uprisings took place in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, where the workers struggled with high risk and low pay . In 1892, the union's discovery of a labor spy in their midst, in the person of Charlie Siringo, sometime cowboy and Pinkerton agent, resulted in a strike that developed into a shooting war between miners and the company . </P> <P> Years later Harry Orchard, who owned a share of the Hercules Mine in the nearby mountains before it began producing, confessed to a secret, brutal and little understood role in the Colorado Labor Wars . He later confessed to dynamiting a $250,000 mill belonging to the Bunker Hill Mining Company near Wardner during another miners' uprising in 1899 . He returned later to Idaho to assassinate former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905 . </P> <P> Coeur d'Alene is located at 47 ° 41 ′ 34" N 116 ° 46 ′ 48" W ﻿ / ﻿ 47.69278 ° N 116.78000 ° W ﻿ / 47.69278; - 116.78000 (47.692845, − 116.779910), at an elevation of 2,180 ft (660 m) above sea level . </P> <P> According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.08 square miles (41.65 km), of which, 15.57 square miles (40.33 km) is land and 0.51 square miles (1.32 km) is water . </P>

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