The Sphinx of Idaho, or the Old Man of the Valley, 1929–1934
For five years a Pocatello man wrote to the Tribune about a rock in Arbon Valley that looked like the Sphinx, which he said settlers called the Old Man of the Valley.
1929 in the valley.
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A sheep-killing bear at the head of Rattlesnake Creek, 1899
In June 1899 men from Surveyor Sonnenkalb's camp ran down and killed a big bear, said to have killed hundreds of sheep, at the head of Rattlesnake Creek, very probably above the later Crystal.
Jerry Hatch and the hardest winter on the Arbon mail route, 1929
In the winter of 1928–29 mail carrier Jerry B. Hatch packed the Arbon mail on his back through a snowstorm on the reservation, and a Crystal woman finished the trip on a mail horse.