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Calendar for 2019 Trail Dust Newsletter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Idaho Chapter Vol. XXXI Issue 1 Nancy Briggs, Editor, Mar 2019 Contents Calendar for 2019 1 Message from the President 2 May Activities 2 IOCTA Program for May Meeting 4 The Idaho Wild West 5 OCTA Spring Board Meeting & Symposium 6 Proposal for a new IOCTA Committee 8 Diaries Across Idaho 9 Calendar for 2019 Feb – March – Boise Community Education Classes March 15th – 16th, - OCTA Symposium in Independence, MO April 27th – Spring Byway Tour May 9 – 10th – Searching for History in City of Rocks May 11th am - Spring Chapter Meeting in Burley May 11th pm - Visit to Caldron Linn with Jim Hardee August – Jeffreys/Goodale Cutoff at Carey September 3rd – 7th - Annual Convention in Santa Fe NM. October 5th – Fall Meeting and visit to the Oregon Trail Recreation Area 1 | P a g e Message from The President By Jerry Eichhorst A relatively mild winter in the Boise area is fading away as spring arrives. That of course, can only mean one thing: it is time to get out on the trails. The Boise Community Education classes in February and March were another success. Over 35 different people attended at least one of the three classes, with several attending all of the classes. Most participants seemed to enjoy the classes. Several have promised to join OCTA and the Idaho chapter. I hope they do and become active members. The annual spring byway tour will be held on Saturday, April 27. About twenty people have signed up for the tour so it should be a good group. If you have not yet been on this tour, I encourage you to do so. We’ll visit Oregon Trail sites from Mountain Home to Boise including sites that are not generally accessible due to being on private property. Our first chapter activities, including the spring chapter meeting, will be in early May in southern Idaho. Details may be found in another story of this edition of the Trail Dust or on the chapter website, www.IdahoOCTA.org. Activities for the rest of the year have not yet been finalized. If you have an outing in mind or something you would like to see, please let me know. We have a number of members who have yet to come to a chapter activity. I encourage you to come out and participate. The chapter has a lot of great, friendly people and everyone is welcome to join us. There is no cost and it is a great way to meet new friends and learn about the emigrant trails. See you on the trails. May Activities By Jerry Eichhorst The first chapter activities of the year will be conducted at City of Rocks in southern Idaho. On Thursday, May 9, we will meet at the City of Rocks Visitor Center at noon and then head through the park to search for the lost Kelton Road stage station on private property south of the park in Emigrant Canyon. Our initial search last year did not determine the location. A follow-up Old photo of the Stage Station from ‘Emigrant visit I made in August as the last leg of Trails of Southern Idaho’. the Hensley Cutoff post-convention Photo by Larry Jones tour eliminated another possibility . 2 | P a g e After studying maps and the one picture of the stage station, I have determined another location which needs to be searched. BLM Photo of the old City of Rocks Stage Station. Note the very faint Twin Sisters in the background, above the two figures on the right, and particularly the perspective the photo gives of them. The following day, Friday, May 10, we will again meet at the City of Rocks Visitor Center, but at 9:00 in the morning. We will be going into the Reserve to do metal detecting under the direction of the COR Archaeologist at two camping areas for California Trail emigrants. We will be doing a formal search with grids laid out and locations of artifacts carefully noted by the archaeologist. Finally, on Saturday, May 11, the spring chapter meeting will be held at Perkins Restaurant in Burley, Idaho (see page 4). After a short business meeting, Jim Hardee, noted fur trapper and explorer historian, will talk about the Hunt expedition and early explorers in southern Idaho. Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Leo Ariwite will also talk about the meaning of what is carved on Map Rock south of Nampa. After lunch, we will have an outing to Caldron Linn, west of Burley. Be sure to mark your calendars. Details may be found on the chapter website, www.IdahoOCTA.org. 3 | P a g e Spring Meeting Program for May 11th, Burley Leo Ariwite – Map Rock Jim Hardee – Caldron Linn In the fourth Issue of Trail dust for 2018 we Jim is the author of the award-winning wrote an article about Map Rock. Leo publication “Obstinate Hope: The Western Ariwite from Expeditions of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, Volumes 1 & Fort Hall noted 2”, and “Pierre’s Hole: The Fur Trade History of the article and Teton Valley, Idaho”. He is also editor of the offered to Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, published by speak to us the Sublette County Historical Society. about it. Leo is the Language & Cultural Preservation Liaison at Fort Hall and in this role provides for tribal educational projects. He serves as the intermediary between the Tribes, non- Indians and tourism development in the states of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Map Rock is just one petroglyph in the area of the Guffey Butte – Black Butte Archeological District. Map Rock is believed to have been He will be speaking to us about the Wilson created by the Shoshone Bannock hundreds, Price Hunt Party and will lead a tour to if not thousands of years ago. Leo will speak Caldron Linn in the afternoon of the 11th. to us about this large panel of petroglyphs. Caldron Linn, also known as Star Falls, is at The large basalt rock sits on Map Rock Road a point where the Snake River Canyon in Canyon County, 7.3 miles from the narrows to just 40 feet across. It was here that junction with Highway 45. A little further the Wilson Price Hunt ‘Overland’ party, east is Celebration Park where many more making their way cross-country to Astoria, petroglyphs can be found. lost Antoine Clappine and gave up on floating the Snake. They split up. One result was that members of this ‘Overland’ group were probably the first European Americans to visit the ‘Treasure Valley’ “He (Mr. Crooks) called out … but his warning voice was either unheard or unheeded. In the next moment Petroglyphs at Celebration Park they struck upon the rock. The canoe was split and overturned …..” Astoria, Washington Irving, 1836 4 | P a g e The Idaho Wild West By Dan Dunne and Russ Smerz One of the biggest benefits of belonging to IOCTA is that we receive notice of activities that are presented by other Idaho Historical Organizations. In the past we have, for example, attended Lewis and Clark Society presentations. Recently IOCTA notified members that the Owyhee County Historical Society and Museum in Murphy, Idaho was hosting a free seminar on the subject of Idaho's Wild West. The Idaho Wild West program included: Joe Hickey who displayed and discussed his extensive collection of rifles and pistols from 1860-1900. These 60 or so weapons are in mint condition. He had stories and interesting facts about most weapons. We were allowed to pick up and examine any weapon we wanted. Bob Sobba who presented the story of David Updyke, the rogue, and we do mean rogue, Sheriff of Ada County in the 1860's. He was later hanged by Payette Vigilantes! One of the items that was not on the agenda was the Fort Boise Garrison (FBG). This is a reenactment group that does accurate period dress presentations. There were three soldiers, one trapper and one woman that were dressed in the 1850's - 1870's clothing. They brought along a mannequin and showed how to dress it in the proper clothing of that period. Bill Betenson, the great nephew of Butch Cassidy, made a presentation of this well-known outlaw and western character. Hint, he does not believe that Butch died in South America but returned to the American West. You can find him and his Uncle, on Face Book. The Wild West History Association is an organization much like OCTA that does field and historical research. Find them at www.wildwesthistory.org . The day concluded with a tour of the Owyhee County Museum. It is a very nice museum and well worth a trip to Murphy, Idaho. The museum staff was excited to display OCTA information, since the Southern Alternate Oregon Trail passed very close to the museum. Anytime you have a chance to go to any historical gathering, this is fertile ground as we are all interested in our history. I believe we recruited several members that day. 5 | P a g e OCTA Spring Symposium in Independence – Truman & the Trails By John Briggs Being used to the wide-open spaces of Idaho it when the road was originally built it called for was of great interest for me to see how Trails are tree stumps to be no more than eight inches high. managed in an urban environment, and especially Wagons can pass over such stumps! This square at the kicking off point for the Trails in the was where the outfitting needs of the Pioneers Independence area.
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