Homestead claims and proving up, land patents, surveys, and the buying and selling of farms and ranches.
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.
Benedicta Wrensted photographed Pocatello and Fort Hall, while her brother Peter, a police chief and forest officer, took up land near Crystal, where his family farmed for decades.
Walter Fredrich took up land at the head of Bull Canyon in 1913 and married the Arbon schoolteacher Rachel Fryer in 1918, and the ranch they began was named an Idaho Century Ranch in 2020.
A cemetery, a surviving iris, and a community effort to care for the valley's remembered neighbors.
In 1989 Idaho's governor praised Arbon Valley's farmers and deer hunters for settling their quarrel, and over the next decade the valley's ranchers found themselves in the West's wider argument over mountain lions.
In early 1981 Idaho auctioned school endowment farmland in Arbon Valley, and 120 acres near Pauline and a full section near Crystal went for far more than the appraisers had expected.
For eight years the classified pages of Salt Lake City and Logan papers offered pieces of Arbon Valley, from canyon recreation ground and a cattle range to barnwood, big dry farms and, in 1983, a 320-acre farm the government wanted to sell.
At 97, George Daniels Sr., Oneida County's oldest man and once a homesteader on the West Fork of Bannock Creek, recalled a runaway horse herd, a river crossing, old injuries and the square dances he called in Arbon Valley.
David Siewert, born in Russia to German parents, proved up a homestead at Crystal, held on there while drought and debt emptied the basin, and died at Calgary, Canada, in June 1971 at 83.
In the summer of 1969 Intermountain Gas Co. had a test well drilled on Donald Porter's farm near Arbon, but it went down 3,677 feet without a show of oil or gas.
As he neared 89 in 1969, Charles Connelly told a Pocatello paper about thirteen years on a Crystal homestead, where snow buried the cabin, wheat went to Arimo by sled and a blizzard once hid the way home.
When Emma "Minnie" Green, the Pocatello medium said to have advised Ben Ross, turned 100 in 1967, her profile went back to her ranch at Crystal and the bad road over Gumbo Hill.
Days before Joe Arbon turned 90, a Pocatello paper printed his memories of the valley named for his father, from a dirt-floored cabin and a saddle fund to the first church and the dances he played for.
Newell Lishman, who homesteaded under Bowen's Peak and carried the mail on Arbon's first rural route, died in 1964, and his obituary said a canyon near Arbon had been named Newell Canyon for him.
Half a century after Jay and Marcena Whiting went to homestead at Crystal, their twelve children threw them a golden wedding party in Pocatello on the weekend the whole Whiting clan came together.
William N. Jones came from Dayton, Washington, to a homestead near Pauline, farmed there about eleven years, then worked on the American Falls dam and the moving of the town.
Otto Andersen's death in 1960, between John's golden wedding in 1956 and Ezra's death in 1964, closed the story of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek.
John C. Andersen, who came to the head of Bannock Creek as a boy in the 1890s and later served his ward, a school board and a highway board, died at Clifton on August 1, 1959, three months after his wife.
A Pocatello Chamber of Commerce farm tour stood on the Mink Creek divide on July 11, 1958, and heard that 76 farms held the 59,827 acres of cropland in the Arbon-Crystal district.
Liza Iversen followed her brothers to their Arbon Valley homesteads, married the neighboring homesteader John J. Infanger at sixteen in 1914, and died in Pocatello on her 56th birthday.
Two Oregon men who came to Arbon Valley together in 1910, Paul A. "Cy" Smith and Frank Turner, kept company through homesteads, war, flu and old age, and died three months apart in 1953.
Two years after helping launch Power County's soil conservation district, LeRoy Lindley of Arbon striped his own hillside wheat farm with contour strips that his neighbors had never seen before.
In the fall of 1949 Standard Oil Company of California sought state land west of Arbon, and within two months it held leases in a valley that had gone hunting for oil once before.
Charles Ethen Norton, who came to Idaho as a boy of eleven and had a homestead on the Crystal side of Arbon Valley by 1917, died at home on August 5, 1949, at 73.
William Henry Mathews, who raised much of a family of thirteen on a homestead at the Summit end of Arbon Valley, died in his Pocatello home on Christmas Day, 1946.
When Jewell Horton died at Pocatello in 1946, his obituary gave his Arbon Valley years one date, though the old papers show a Pauline homesteader who clerked a valley vote, judged its small cases and took in its wheat.
For thirteen years after the Second World War, Utah classified columns offered Arbon Valley dry farms of up to 1,600 acres, sold with their combines, granaries and wheat allotments, one of them for $160,000 in 1957.
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 November 1935 a Pocatello paper reported that the United States had paid seven Arbon Valley owners for some 2,000 acres to add to the Fort Hall Reservation, and a day later it protested the lost taxes.
George Stahl Butler, a Kansas homesteader whose Bannock Creek house held Arbon Valley's first Protestant Sunday school, died at American Falls in October 1931, leaving a widow, eight children, three brothers and three sisters.