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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BV_jesus-urquides-packs-a-mule-1925_Boise-ID.html
In 1850, at age seventeen, Jesus Urquides joined the California gold rush to Stockton and the Sierra Nevadas. In 1860, striking out on his own, he followed the rush to Walla Walla, Lewiston, and The Dalles. Boise Basin's 1863 gold rush lured Urq…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22RR_jesus-urquides-circa-1870_Boise-ID.html
Legendary mule packer Jesus Urquides was a Boise pioneer and founder of a freighting business located on this site. Born January 18, 1833 in Sonora, Mexico, Urquides migrated to the California gold fields in 1850 where he worked as a mule packer …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22RP_warm-springs-avenue_Boise-ID.html
The Warm Springs Avenue neighborhood began to emerge in the 1890's, soon after Kelly Hot Springs, for which the street was named, was tapped to provide water for Boise's fire hydrants. The prominent owners of the water line built their mansions o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E18_sacajawea-and-pomp_Boise-ID.html
Sacajawea and Pomp Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshoni Indian born near Salmon, Idaho around 1790. She was the only Idaho native, and the only female, to be a member of the famed Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery" expedition that opened up the Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2R_bonneville-point_Boise-ID.html
From this old Indian trail later known as the Old Oregon Trail Captain B,L,E, Bonnevilles partner on first sighting the river May 1833 exclaimed - Les Bois Les Bois Voyes Les Bois meaning The Woods The Woods See The Woods Capt Bonneville theref…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2P_captain-bonneville_Boise-ID.html
Bonneville Point According to tradition, a hunting party led by the explorer Captain Benjamin Bonneville reached this promontory in 1833. They saw the lush river valley below and exclaimed in French, "Les bois; les bois; vouyez le bois!" ("The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2O_the-fur-trade-and-the-tide-of-emigration_Boise-ID.html
Hunt's party laid the groundwork for future trapping expeditions across the Snake River Plain. Donald Mackenzie, who accompanies Hunt and later joined the British North West Company, returned to establish trade relations with resident Indian bands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2M_the-hunt-expedition_Boise-ID.html
Beaver pelts lured the first Euro-Americans deep into the American West. In 1810, only four years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, John Jacob Astor established the Pacific Fur Company. He soon financed sea and land expeditions t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D2K_the-shoshone-and-northern-paiute_Boise-ID.html
The landscape before you is part of the homeland of the Shoshone, Bannock, and Northern Paiute Indians. They occupied these lands for countless generations before the arrival of Euro-Americans. Living in small bands of several families, their live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16SV_idaho-state-penitentiary_Boise-ID.html
New addition built 1893Prison CommissionersWilliam J. McConnell, Gov.Jas. F. Curtis, Sec. of StateGeo.M. Parsons, Atty. Gen.Jas. King, Arch't.
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