The Shoshone-Bannock people, explorers and emigrant trails, trappers, and the valley before homesteading.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
At a 2024 landowners' meeting a tribal rancher gave Bannock Creek its Bannock and Shoshone names, among them Pasakwa Huude, part of a wider effort on the reservation to bring Native place names back into use.
In 1973 the *Idaho State Journal* sent weekend campers over Mink Creek, through Pauline and Arbon, to Twin Springs on the Hudspeth Cutoff, where gold-rush wagon tracks still crossed the hills.
In March 1972 the Fort Hall tribes impounded more than 300 cattle on Bannock Creek range that they said belonged to the Arbon rancher Sod Williams, and vowed to keep them until the damage was paid for.
In April 1960 a reservation policeman and three men reached a skeleton, two old rifles and a powder horn under a boulder in the Bannock Creek district, and a Pocatello man wondered if the trapper Old Yank had gone there to die.
At a watermelon-fed meeting on August 31, 1948, the Fort Hall agency told Bannock Creek families that the American Falls school district would run their Indian day school that year.
In the summer of 1947 two women visited the Wrensteds at Crystal, admired the valley's wheat and told stories of their people, among them that Mink Creek was named for Jeanette's grandfather.
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.
In 1937 a Pocatello man, objecting to an elk hunt, recalled Indians digging camas at the head of Midnight Creek about 1904 and the sheep-worn meadow he found later.
In the hot, dry summer of 1935, with grain dying on the reservation farms, the Fort Hall agency ordered settlers at the head of Bannock Creek to give back the Indians' share of its water.
When the Fort Hall lands on lower Bannock Creek were divided into allotments, the valley's road to Michaud had to move, Pauline farmers leased allotted ground, and by 1922 the land of allottees who had died was up for sale.
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.
In November 1911 four children whose father, known in Nevada as "Indian Mike," had once farmed on Bannock Creek as Jim Taggert were brought from a Nevada school to Fort Hall after the fight that killed most of their family.
In October 1904 a federal judge let the Fort Hall agent's suit over Bannock Creek water go forward against Dave Daniels and his neighbors, and the settlers asked to bring in every user.
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.