Pocatello truly deserves to be called a railroad town, since it is located at the junction of two railways; the Utah Northern and the Oregon Short Line. The townsite was purchased from the Indians of the Fort Hall reservation, and … Continue reading →
Fort Lemhi was established by the LDS Church as a mission to the Indians in 1855. It was on the Lemhi River near the present town of Tendoy, Idaho. Though it took two years of crop failures caused by grasshoppers … Continue reading →
If one were able to visit the vicinity of the eastern slope of Oregon’s Blue Mountains in February 1814, a strange and sad sight would have been seen: a young Indian woman and her two little boys, huddled in a … Continue reading →
This yarn was adapted from an undated clipping from the Hailey, Idaho newspaper. In the days of the Idaho Territory, stores didn’t have many Christmas goods to sell. Churches and tap rooms were the primary gathering spots for the holiday. The … Continue reading →
[Author Washington Irving used Captain Benjamin Bonneville’s notes to write The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., which was published in 1837. The following story is based on an incident that occurred in the vicinity of the present city of Pocatello.] … Continue reading →