Which pass brought Fremont down Bannock Creek in 1843?
A 1945 Pocatello Tribune history brought John C. Fremont down Bannock Creek to Fort Hall in 1843 by way of Garden Creek Gap, and a reader wrote in the next year to say he had crossed elsewhere.
Before Homesteading, before 1884.
A Shoshone and Bannock homeland; trails, travelers and cattle range. Articles from these years, newest first, and old-papers stories about them.
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Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
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The winter the herds died, and the years Bannock Valley was cattle range
An old settler’s 1915 memory of the winter that froze the Oregon herds opens three decades of glimpses of Bannock Valley as range for cattle and sheep, before wheat took it over.
Brigham Young’s company crosses Bannock Valley on the road to Fort Limhi
In the spring of 1857 Brigham Young’s company came down a steep spur ridge into Bannock Valley on its way to Fort Limhi, and two accounts of the journey give the earliest printed picture of the valley yet found.