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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QZS_the-bonneville-expedition_Imnaha-OR.html
"When great obstacles present, and threaten to keep them back, their hearts swell, and they push forward" Washington IrvingAn exploration party crossed this divide between the Snake and the Imnaha in winter.Capt. B.L.E. Bonneville and three compan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D07_the-nez-perce-war-of-1877_Imnaha-OR.html
In May, 1877, Chief Joseph gathered his band of Nez Perce Indians from their winter villages along the Imnaha. Instead of heading for their customary summering country in the Wallowa Valley, they began their famous fighting retreat from General O.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZX_hells-canyon-national-recreation-area_Imnaha-OR.html
In 1975, Congress created the 652,488 - acre Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. It is managed by the USDA Forest Service under the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Hells Canyon National Recreation Area offers a variety of exceptional recrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZW_look-over-hells-canyon_Imnaha-OR.html
Where many exciting adventures await you! Explore the rugged canyons, climb the spectacular mountains or ride the Snake River's rapids in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. In Oregon, forested draws and grassy benches plunge 7,000 feet abov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZV_land-of-fire-and-water_Imnaha-OR.html
The geologic story of Hells Canyon National Recreation Area is a tale of fire and water...of molten lava erupted from volcanoes and oozed through cracks in the earth...of rushing water, erosion and sedimentation...of building up and wearing down..…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZU_a-story-written-in-stone_Imnaha-OR.html
Plunging to a depth of a mile and a half and averaging 10 miles in width, Hells Canyon is the deepest gorge in North America. Its walls are an open book, revealing four significant chapters in the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest. Toda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZT_a-monumental-landscape_Imnaha-OR.html
Across Horse Creek from you is "Monument Ridge" named for its mysterious stone monuments that are visible with binoculars. It is not known exactly who made them or why. Perhaps they were built to mark grazing areas or piled up by a Basque sheepher…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CZS_horse-creek-overlook_Imnaha-OR.html
MONUMENT RIDGE, the table-like mountain on the horizon, derived its name from rock monuments-like the one here-built years ago by sheepherders to mark boundaries of their grazing lands. Two can be seen on the slopes of the far ridge. In its rus…
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