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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20L7_father-de-smet-monument_Soda-Springs-ID.html
This monument, featuring a bust of Father Pierre De Smet, has four plaques around it. They are, left to right (clockwise):
Westward Ho!
Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-1873) traveled to America as a young man in 1821, from what is today Belg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20K9_bear-river-lava_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Until about 28,000 years ago, Bear River used to flow northwest from here through Portneuf Canyon into Snake River.
Then these lava eruption blocked that route, diverting Bear River south into what now is Salt Lake. At that time a large inlan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20K8_john-bidwell_Soda-Springs-ID.html
In 1840, John Bidwell began to assemble emigrants from Missouri to open a road to California; and a year later, he set out with a party of 69 Pacific Coast pioneers.
When they reached here, August 12, 1841, half of this group decided to go nort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20K5_william-henry-harrison_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Oregon Trail Memorial
Erected 1931
Restored 1978
Caribou County 4H Builders Club
In honor of William Henry Harrison of Massachusetts who lost his life on the Oregon Trail about 1850.
Erected by his niece Mrs. Alura F. Beardsley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20K0_guiding-landmark_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Towering 1200 feet above the waters of Bear River is Sheep Rock, a prominent landmark described in emigrant diaries and journals as they traveled west on the Oregon and California trails. Trapper and mountain men, in the early 1830s, indicate that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20JX_clash-of-cultures_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Floods of emigrants, gold seekers, and Mormon settlers entering the homeland of the Shoshone and Bannock people from the mid-1840s to early 1860s gave rise to conflict and often violent encounters. Despite Mormon effort to supply them with food, s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20JV_first-in-soda-springs_Soda-Springs-ID.html
In many respects, emigrants Niels Anderson and Mary Christoffersen seem like typical young Idaho pioneers of the 1860s. Niels, 28 years old, and Mary, barely 16, were wed by a Justice of the Peace at an open-air ceremony at Camp Connor on July 30,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IX_a-new-beginning_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Claiming to have received "revelations" to warn Mormon leader Brigham Young that he was "wandering from the right course," a Welshman named Joseph Morris came under rebuke in 1862 for speaking out against Mormon doctrines. Growing hostilities prom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IW_law-order-on-the-frontier_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Excitement and anxiety mounted as emigrants prepared to launch their ox-drawn prairie schooners from St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri - bustling river ports at the edge of the frontier in the 1840s. To them, the great, gray ribbon of the Miss…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IT_memories-of-conda-a-company-community_Soda-Springs-ID.html
Only memories remain...
In 1920, the ambitious Anaconda Copper Mining Company built the community of Conda to house its phosphate miners and their families. About 300 people resided in Conda during the mining heyday. The town closed in 1984. …