The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-05-20
IDAHO HISTORY.

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Everybody knows that Lewis 6
Clarke crossed northern Idaho il
1905, but it is not generally known
that Capt. Henry, a trapper, visited
the headwaters of Snake River II
1910, named IIeDry's Lake and Hen.
RVS Fork, built some log houses in
Island Park and abandoned the coun-
try in the spring of 1911.
In the fall of 1911, Capt. VIM. P.
Hunt, of John Jacob Astor's expidi-
ton camped at the place while they
built canoes to take their party of
As persons down the river. Here
they left II horses and several men,
and started down the stream on the
10th of October. On the 21st they
passed the present site of Idaho Falls
Blackfoot on the %, American Falls
Falls on the oath, and were obliged
to abandon the boats above Twin
Falls on the 26th. Most of the party
finally reached the mouth OF The Co
lumbia, travelling most of tie way
afoot. The following year some OF
the party came back through Idaho
on their way to st. Louis, passing
Twin Falls. Soda Springs and enter
ing Star Valley where they were rob-
bed of their horses. Floating down
the river they touched at Sunnydell,
went afoot via Rexburg, and back
into the mountains to gain the head
waters of the Missouri, but came out
on the North Platte, reaching st.
Louis N 1918.
In 1928 a party was organized in
St. Louis to send out a hundred men
to explore and trap in the Rocky
Mountains. The scattered out all
over the West, and met once a year
IN rendezvous or convention at some
central point, generally in South
western Wyoming. The annual rem
~lezvous developed into a great trad
ng period lasting a month or so
when supplies from St. Louis were
ttCiNCu " Aulo oCAl OdChg W pam
rain via South Pass, Laramie Pass
md the Platte River and the Kaw to
he Missouri.
These men established FIT. Bridger,
post at Utah Lake, named many
'laces, such as Humboldt River.
humboldt Mountains, Walker Lake
fams Fork, Blacks Fork and Ash
Fork, opened the trail from
Salt Lake to Southern Califor-
ia, and another via the Humboldt, I
mother to Sante Fe, and others in |
II directions from the upper Green !
liver Country. They were the trail {
and.map makers of the West, t
every year they received a cara 1
an from st. Louis and returned one. q
1881 Capt. Bonneville (Bonvil) s
ID IN exploring party into Idaho, s
lat spent five years exploring The Il
lateau and the Pacific coast. t
In 1882 the Flathead Indians sent b
,ur braves to St. Louis to get a copy
the White Mans Book of Heaven. b
ere they met Capt. Clarke who had a
cen among their people in 1867, is
I'd he entertained them and made f,
lem presents, but they could not s:
ad and he gave them no Bible. Il
My one of the Indians got back ii
i've to tell the story of their disap- cl
ointment. This effort of the In d
ans to get some of the White Mans a.
ligion resulted in the Methodist m
visionary Society sending Jason Lee re
1884 to establish a mission among p,
e Indians on the Pacific coast, and Sc
preached the first Protestant ser tn
IN ever delivered west of the Rocky a
o%untains at Fort Hall, Idaho, July pr
, 1884. In October following Lee to
.ablished Willamette Mission, now al
Illamctte University. m
Rev. Lee travelled in company with
Sublette, Wyeth and Mckay, tn
the U. S. Army, and who establish hu
on that trip, FIT. Laramie, Ft. Hall, ev
i Fort Boise. The first time the Ike
vernment ever sent men overland in,
plant the Stars and Stripes on the ha
cifc Slope was this instance, and wi
pt. Wyeth, at FIT. Hall on July 10, or,
81, marks the beginning of Ameri-
occupation of the Oregon Coun- an
or,
1886 the Presbyterians sent
rcus Whitman and Rev. Spauld- DO,
to establish a mission among the les
Perces, moses ~pierced.) z ma
1899 Rev. Spaulding bought an res
printing outfit at Honolulu, and enc
we'd it to North Idaho where he the
tied an Indian bible. thi
n 1899 Rev. Spaulding induced ser
Nez Perces to send a large band spe
lorses east in care of himself and the
Indian boys, the proceeds of the bru
of horses to be used to bring ual
sionaries, teachers and books and fac
establish schools and churches son