You searched for City|State|Country: , id us
Page 3 of 4 — Showing results 21 to 30 of 34
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJ0_the-bank-and-the-burgoyne_Montpelier-ID.html
Bank of Montpelier's Impact on Local Banking History
Residents of Bear Lake county have discussed the Butch Cassidy bank robbery for years with varied endings. Not unlike fishermen's boastings, tales of the exact amount of Butch's loot will be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIZ_ritter-bros-drug-and-the-roxy-theatre_Montpelier-ID.html
The streetscape of Montpelier has changed through the years. The early years of this Oregon Trail town began with only horse power including wagons and horseback. Streets were packed dirt with hitching posts. With the advent of the horseless carr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PI8_hot-cold-dry-wet-dusty-2-000-mile-trail_Montpelier-ID.html
Beginning in Independence, Missouri, the Oregon/California Trail passes through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, and Idaho. it ends in Oregon, California or Utah - depending on the destination of the pioneers.
While the Oregon/California T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PI7_butch-cassidy-robs-the-montpelier-bank_Montpelier-ID.html
On the hot afternoon of August 23, 1896, Butch Cassidy with two members of his Wild Bunch Gang, Elza Lay and Bob Meeks, robbed The Bank of Montpelier which was originally located in the building across the street from this sign.
The Bank of Mon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHQ_the-mcauley-cutoff_Montpelier-ID.html
On April 7, 1852, seventeen-year-old Eliza Ann McAuley, with her older brother Thomas and sister Margaret, left Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to travel overland to California. For a time they were accompanied by the "Eddyville Company," led by William Buc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHP_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
"... the greatest impediment on the whole route from the United States to Fort Hall." - Theodore Talbot, 1843
Near the Wyoming/Idaho border the pioneers face Big Hill, on of the most challenging obstacles of their journey. The dusty Oregon/Cal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHO_one-continual-stream_Montpelier-ID.html
"One continual stream of honest looking open harted people going west" - James Cayman, mountain man, captured this sentiment in his diary as he watched pioneers heading west in 1846.
Between 1841 and 1869 nearly 300,000 farmers, merchants, mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHN_idahos-emigrant-trails_Montpelier-ID.html
Westward-bound emigrants entered Idaho after crossing Thomas Fork Valley. They soon encountered the climb and descent of Big Hill, witnessed nature's curiosities at Soda Springs, and discovered willing traders at Fort Hall.
In 1843 wagons first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHM_big-hill_Montpelier-ID.html
"the steepest and longest ascent we have made on the route..." - James Wilkins
Looking east across the fields is Big Hill, one of the most difficult obstacles along the 2,000-mile Oregon/California Trail. The trail crosses the Thomas Fork, no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PGQ_mcauleys-road_Montpelier-ID.html
Coming west with Ezra Meeker in 1852, Thomas McAuley decided to build a road to let emigrants bypass Big Hill.
Worst of all Oregon Trail descents, Big Hill needed replacement. Eliza McAuley reported that her brother Tom "fished awhile, then …