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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/HM1D0M_supporting-the-camp_Jerome-ID.html
Toshio Toyoji and his 44 whse. (warehouse) 20 carpenters make and finish practically all of the office furniture. They remodel and alter barracks for schools and evacuee housing as well as the staff housing. The project sign shop is also located i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D0C_honor-roll_Jerome-ID.html
Nearly every relocation center built an Honor Roll sign listing the names of Japanese American internees serving in World War II. Minidoka's sign, which stood near the rock garden, was erected on October 14, 1943. By the war's end nearly 1,000 nam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D0B_a-question-of-loyalty_Jerome-ID.html
The Honor Roll sign listed the names of Minidoka men and women who served in World War II, attesting to their honor and loyal citizenship. But not all viewed honor and loyalty in the same way. The government issued a questionnaire in early 1943 to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CWJ_history-of-the-malad-river_Bliss-ID.html
Malad HistoryIf eating food somewhere made you sick, how would you warn others of the danger? Fur trappers and traders named the Malad River the Riviere Aux Malad, or "sickly river," after becoming hill from eating beaver trapped on its banks. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CWI_a-plain-of-volcanoes_Arco-ID.html
The shallow arc of Idaho's Snake River Plain spans southern Idaho, gently rising from west to east. Current theories suggest that the plain marks the path of continental movement over a deep hotspot now lying beneath the Yellowstone Plateau. As th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CWH_wheres-the-volcano_Arco-ID.html
Say the word volcano and usually the image flashes to mind of a single great symmetrical cone. But, the volcanic activity in Craters of the Moon National Monument and the Snake River Plain has taken a different form.
Parallel cracks in the eart…