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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMESX_hostility-erupts-into-violence_Caldwell-ID.html
On August 20, 1854, the Alexander Ward Party of 20 men, women, and children were traveling on the Oregon Trail with five wagons, a day behind a larger party led by Alexander Yantis. The Wards pulled their wagons off the Trail for lunch and to wate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMES3_violence-is-avenged_Caldwell-ID.html
In early September, 1854, Major Granville Hallar set out with a US military force from their post in Oregon to avenge the Ward-party deaths. Upon arrival at the rebuilt Hudson Bay's Fort Boise near the mouth of the Boise River, the Indians they en…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMERD_to-the-memory-of-the-pioneers_Caldwell-ID.html
To the memory of the pioneers who were massacred by Indians near this spot August 20, 1854.
This monument is dedicated by Pioneer Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Boise, Idaho
William Ward ? ? ? Age 44Margaret Ward ? ? ? ?" ? 37M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMERA_peaceful-trading-turns-hostile_Caldwell-ID.html
In the 1830's, local tribes, including the Shoshone, Paiute, and Bannock began trading with Euro-American fur trappers and missionaries passing through southern Idaho. Peaceful exchanges beneficial to both groups increased in 1842 when wagon train…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER5_the-ward-massacre_Caldwell-ID.html
Only 2 young boys survived the Indian attack on Alexander Ward's 20 member party, Oregon bound on August 20, 1854.
Military retaliation for the slaughter so enraged the Indians that Hudson's Bay Co. posts Fort Boise and Fort Hall had to be aban…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER3_emigrant-crossing_Caldwell-ID.html
After reaching Boise River, emigrant wagons had to travel 30 miles to find a good crossing about 1/4 mile north of here.
They had to avoid a wide zone of shifting channels, so they descended Canyon Hill where the route is still visible. In 185…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMENU_oregon-trail_Boise-ID.html
Indians, trappers, and emigrants who came this way before 1900 used a more direct route to get between Boise and Glenns Ferry. Their road still can be seen at Bonneville Point 5 miles from here.
Following close to a line of hills bordering a b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEJ3_marie-dorion_Parma-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEJ1_old-fort-boise_Parma-ID.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEIY_lower-boise_Notus-ID.html
Confederate refugees from Missouri started farming in this area in 1863 and 1864, when gold and silver mining camps created a great demand for flour and cattle.
Driven out from their Missouri River homes below Kansas City by extremely bitter Ci…