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Caribou Forest History Combines Tribes Trade and Trails
The Caribou area in Soda Springs Idaho hosts a long history from Shoshonean tribes to Nez Perces and Crow hunting grounds. Early white explorers like Hunt and Wyeth, fur companies, and later miners and ranchers shaped a landscape of beaver, buffalo, and buffalo trade. The Lander Trail opened Caribou to federal roads, mining began 1870 with placer gold, towns like Keenan Iowa Bar and Caribou City flourished, cattle and sheep arrived by 1860s–1890s, and large forest fires and shifting wildlife abundance marked the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Caribou National Forest
Great Plains
Northwest
Wyeth
Bonneville
Bridger
Robert Stuart
Hunt
Ogden
Russell
Goodhart
Fremont
Lander
Farnham
Caribou
Portneuf
Snake River
Blackfoot River
Bear River
Salt River
Portnerf River
Francis Ermatinger
Fort Hall
Hudson Bay Company
Caribou Forest
Mansfield
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Crow Creek
Tygee
Stump Creeks
Oneida
Stump Creek
Benjamin White
Montana
J. H. Stump
White
Boise Basin
Oregon
Washington
Fish Creek Divide
Alexander Gap
Intermountain
East
United States
Congress
Pacific
Fort Kearney
South Pass
Honey Lake
Fredrik W. Lander
City of Rocks
Twin Falls
McCoy Creek
Babcock
F. McCoy
Jesse Fairchild
Town Creek
Anderson Creek
City Creek
Barnes Creek
Bilk Creek
Keenan
John Keenan
Iowa Bar