Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-01-27
INDIAN WAR; HISTORY
In Idaho and Indian Raids In the
Present County Of Elmore.

Idaho was the scene of many hard
fought battle with the untamed ana
yindictive red men, and few TRACE
dies were enactd in Elmore County.
Although in the days that Lewis
and Clark crossed the Mountains, en-
route for the Pacific Ocean, the west
ern voyageurs were the recipients OF
good treatment at the hands OF the
various tribes in North Idaho, the
pouring in of the "Bostons,' as the
white people were called, set the red
men to thinking, and soon with pro-
phetic instinct, they saw their hunt
ing-grounds broken up and fenced in,
their forests laid low by the settlers
ak, the pale-face the lord of all, and
in the hearts of the red men We're
sown the seeds of hatred toward the
white race, so tribe after tribe from
the banks of the Missouri river to
the shores of the Pacific, dug up the
hatchets, donned their war paint and
went on the war-path against the
whites.
The East had her Five Nations from
the Mohawks, in New York, to the
Iroquois ,on the shores of the Mis-
sissippi, whose glories and faults
have been chronicled to the world
by historians, but the history of the
Six Nations of the Northwest, the
Walla-Wallas, Cayuses, Nez Perces,
Spokanes, Shoshones and Bannocks
will be task for the historian of
the future.
Tom Hill, half-breed Delaware,
educated at Dartmouth college, was
the head man of the Nations, and
in the great council, in the early sos,
held at LapWai, now in Nez Perce
county, he said in his address, "The
Bostons destroy our pastures and
have driven all the game from this
part of the country. Our game is
gone and our camas gone. They take
our land, but We get no pay, no food
no blankets. A few missionaries
came among the Delawares; then
more, and then thousands of the
Bostons came, and drove us away
from our country"
This speech raised friction from
the Snake to the willamette rivers,
between the red mon and the immi.
grants, and from that time on, the
Indians looked upon the white immi
grants and settlers as their prey.
In SO Chief Pocatello at the head
of a large force of Bannock and
Shoshone warriors roamed over south
ern Idaho, spreading devastation, but
was finally run down by the First
Oregon and First Washington Volun'
teer Infantry regiments, aided by
Captain Rube Robbins Mounted
Scouts and Captain Medorum Craw.
ford's Mounted Riflemen.
The blood of the immigrant and
the volunteer soldiers dyed the wa.
ters of the Salmon, the Snake, the
the Portneuf, the Big Lost and the
Wood rivers. The soil of Camas
Prairie, White Bird Canyon ,and the
Boise Valley drank of their blood.
The Shoshones went on the warpatl
in '67, but through the diplomacy OF
Governor Ballard, peace was made
In '68, and the Shoshones settled up
pom the Fort Hall reservation land
everything was quiet until '72, in this
section of Idaho, when the Bannocks
and Shoshones forded the Snake
river, a short distance above old
Glenns Ferry and proceeded along the
old Emigrant Trail to the WeiseI
river, where they were joined by
Iuc OmdIllldo. LuC opCCuy dliANol
of troops from different directions
and mobilizing close to the Indian
encampment restored order. In '76
band of Nez Perces invaded south
ern Idaho, and were Joined at the
Owyhee river by Chief Winnemuccs
and his Piute warriors, but the Ne2
Perces failed to make an alliance
with them.
They parted at Indian creek, not
far from the present site of Sunny
side.
In IT, the Bannocks broke loose
from their reservation at Fort Hal
and went on the war path. Coming
! to Camas Prairie in May of that
year they waged war on the set
tiers, shooting many down. Going
southwark, they reached old King
- Hill stage station, at the Kenslel
- fh, afterward the scene of one
Nof the most sensational murders In
the criminal history of Idaho, ant
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