This valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everwhere for...
Known as Goddin's River in the days of the fur trade. This stream originally was named for the trapper who discovered it. Thery Goddin, a prominent Iroquois who explored this river in 1819 or 1820, had come here with Donald Mackenzie's fur hunters...
Dedication of Memorial, Hope, Idaho. This commemorates this coming of the first white man to Lake Pend D'Oreille, David Thompson, Explorer, Geographer and Fur Trader, September 8, 1809.
