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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER5_the-ward-massacre_Caldwell-ID.html
Only 2 young boys survived the Indian attack on Alexander Ward's 20 member party, Oregon bound on August 20, 1854.
Military retaliation for the slaughter so enraged the Indians that Hudson's Bay Co. posts Fort Boise and Fort Hall had to be aban…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER3_emigrant-crossing_Caldwell-ID.html
After reaching Boise River, emigrant wagons had to travel 30 miles to find a good crossing about 1/4 mile north of here.
They had to avoid a wide zone of shifting channels, so they descended Canyon Hill where the route is still visible. In 185…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEJ3_marie-dorion_Parma-ID.html
An Iowa Indian who came through here with Wilson Price Hunt's fur trappers in 1811, Marie Dorion spent an incredible winter in this region in 1814.
She and her two infant children were sole survivors of a mid-January Bannock Indian clash at Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEJ1_old-fort-boise_Parma-ID.html
An important Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post was established in 1834 four miles west of here on the bank of the Snake River.
Fur trading declined, but this British post became famous for its hospitality to American travellers on the Oregon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEIY_lower-boise_Notus-ID.html
Confederate refugees from Missouri started farming in this area in 1863 and 1864, when gold and silver mining camps created a great demand for flour and cattle.
Driven out from their Missouri River homes below Kansas City by extremely bitter Ci…