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…
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…