This defile is named for a series of skirmishes between Indians and Emigrants on the Oregon Trail, August 10, 1862. Nine whites were killed, and six more were wounded. As the traveler speeds through this opening in the rocks, he seldom thinks of...
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...
Monument rected July 17, 1926, at Leesburg, commemorating the discovery of gold in July 1866. The monument was erected by O. E. Kirkpatrick, Leesburg. Two of the women in the group are Mrs. Esther Amonson Pyeatt, and Mrs. Anna Edwards Wright,...
Near the base of this hill, over 100 cavalry men and volunteers met disaster in the opening battle of the Nez Perce War. Rushing from Grangeville on the evening of June 16, 1877, Captain David Perry planned to stop the Indians from crossing Salmon...
Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to the Pacific Northwest with the principal connections, the forts along the line, and the territorial divisions of 1852.
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Photograph of writing on a rock found on west side of Raft River, a mile south of the junction of the Old Oregon Trail and the California Cut-Off known as the Yale Diversion. Writing was done with axle grease and shows names with date.
