In 1900 a Salt Lake paper argued that the Shoshone and Bannock people had the better of the Fort Hall cession, which two years later opened Crystal to homesteaders and left the reservation's Bannock Creek bottoms next door to Arbon.
Early in 1898 a delegation from Arbon, a settlement of about 100 people in Bannock Valley, came to Malad City to press for a mail route, and the Malad Enterprise wrote it up.
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.