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Bannack basin Bear River Bitterroot Blackfoot Boise on January Boise River Bonneville Buffalo called Camas Canyon chief City Clearwater Coeur d'Alene Columbia River Congress constitution adopted county seat County.-Named County.-This created in Idaho Creek q. v. crossed Democrat east enacted Father De Smet Fort Hall Fort Lemhi French Fur Company gold History of Lemhi Hudson Bay Company Idaho and Montana Idaho Territory Indian Reservation John killed Kootenai Kootenai County Lake q. v. lands Lapwai Lemhi County Lemhi q. v. Lemhi River Lewis and Clark Lewiston miles mines Montana Mormon Moun Nez Perce Indians northern Northwest Coast Oregon Owyhee Pacific pass q. v. Payette Pend Oreille Portneuf Prairie Republican Rocky Mountains Salmon River session Shoshoni Shoshoni Indian Shoshoni word meaning Snake River plains Snake River q. v. stream Territorial Legislature Teton thence thru trail q. v. trappers treaty tribe Utah Valley Vote western Wyoming
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Page 42 - We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 49 - The name was familiar in 5,000 men's mouths as they wallowed through the snow in '61, on their way to the Oro Fino Mines — long before Congress, or any man of Congress, had ever heard of the new discovery. The facts are these: I was riding pony express at the time rumors reached us, through the Nez Perce Indians, that gold was to be found on the head-waters and tributaries of the Salmon River. I had lived with the Indians; and Colonel Craig, who had spent most of his life with them, often talked...
Page 110 - Upon the foam of the cataract one point of the rock cast a cobalt-blue shadow. Where the river flowed around the western promontory, it was wholly in shadow, and of a deep sea-green. A scanty growth of coniferous trees fringed the brink of the lower cliffs, overhanging the river. Dead barrenness is the whole sentiment of the scene. The mere suggestion of trees clinging here and there along the walls serves rather to heighten than to relieve the forbidding gloom of the place. Nor does the flashing...
Page 49 - Colonel Craig's attention to this peculiar and beautifully arched light. " That," said he, " is what the Indians call E-dah-hoe, which means the light, or diadem, on the line of the mountains.
Page 90 - And he said unto them, behold, I am Limhi, the son of Noah, who was the son of Zeniff, who came up out of the land of Zarahemla to inherit this land, which was the land of their fathers, who was made a king by the voice of the people.
Page 73 - Commencing on the south hank of Snake River at the junction of the Port Neuf River with said Snake River; thence south 25 miles to the summit of the mountains dividing the waters of Bear River from those of Snake River; thence easterly along the summit of said range of mountains 70 miles to a point where...
Page 59 - Lewis's fork of the Columbia. At that time, the Flathead Indians were in the habit of finding their buffalo on the heads of Salmon river, and other streams of the Columbia ; but now they never meet with them farther west than the three forks of the Missouri, or the plains of the Yellow-stone river. In the course of our journey it will be remarked that the...
Page 70 - April 16, 1877. it is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country, situated partly in the Territory of Idaho and partly in the State of Nevada, be, and the same hereby is, withdrawn from the public domain, to wit : Commencing at the one hundredth milepost of the survey of the north boundary of Nevada; thence due north to the intersection of the north boundary of township 16 south of Boise...
Page 41 - The legal voters or such fractional part thereof of the State of Utah, as may be provided by law, under such conditions and in such manner and within such time as may be provided by law, may initiate any desired legislation and cause the same to be submitted to a vote of the people for approval or rejection, or may require any law passed by the legislature (except those...