This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Caribou Mountain and Soda Springs Tales of Hunters and Tragedy
The reminiscence recounts old Soda Springs life including the Occidental Saloon shooting of Louie Lacantee by Bill Edwards, the Whitney brothers’ crimes in Wyoming and Montana, Caribou Mountain’s gold and bear adventures, Jim Call’s bear traps in Eight Mile Canyon, wolverines mistaken for cub bears, log road details, and a family memory of mortality and a mother’s death in 1905 with Dr Rackley and nurse Mrs Louie Lakenbee aiding.
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Louie Lacantee
Edwards
Lacanbee
Soda Springs
Whitney Brothers
Cokeville
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Hugh Whitney
Caribou Mountain
Idaho
Three Mile Knoll
J Fairchilds
Canada
Jim Call
Bear River
Jack
Eight Mile
Jong
Tim
Call
Eight Mile Canyon
Peo
Jim Cal
Eight Mile Creek
Bear Lake County
Rose
Dr Rackley
Ludwig Surkey
J Knowland Sheep Co
Rose Lau
Dr. Kackley
Louie Lakenbee
Bill Edwards