Fremont's 1843 ride down Bannock Creek, argued over in 1945–46
A 1945 Pocatello Tribune history sent John C. Fremont down Bannock Creek to Fort Hall in 1843, and a reader's 1946 letter disputed which pass he had crossed.
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A 1945 Pocatello Tribune history sent John C. Fremont down Bannock Creek to Fort Hall in 1843, and a reader's 1946 letter disputed which pass he had crossed.
Ed Davis, Arbon's storekeeper and a former bishop, died in 1945; his son Orval, born at Arbon in 1902, ranched there and died in 1971.
An Arbon farm boy who rushed an enemy gun position at Anzio came home wounded with the Silver Star and later made his home at American Falls.