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...
Wording on Monument. 1836, Site of Lapwai Mission, the first home, the first school, and the first church in Idaho. Established by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding. Tablet placed by the Idaho Daughters of the American...
