Lizzie King and the Ghost Town of Custer | Boise News

Boise News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 2, 2026 · 1m

Step into the hauntingly beautiful ghost town of Custer, Idaho, where seven generations of one family keep history alive amid gold rush ruins. Born from a 1878 gold strike that swelled a tent city to 5,000 souls, Custer’s soul is anchored by Lizzie King—a British dynamo who turned a dance hall into an empire, owned vast swaths of town, and ruled in a place where one hundred men competed for every woman. Her wild third marriage ended in tragedy: both she and her groom dead within days, allegedly in a gunshot suicide—though the mystery lingers. Her estate? A 163-page probate masterpiece, sealed…