A History Of Indians In The Sun Valley Area

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"The story of human habitation in the Sun Valley area began long before European trappers arrived in the early 1800s. Native Americans had hunted, fished, and lived in the valleys and plains of south central Idaho for thousands of years. This book, based on a series of articles in the Idaho Mountain Express, traces their story from archaeological evidence of habitation in Elkhorn 10,000 years ago to the present day when the Shoshone Bannock peoples are concentrated at the Fort Hall Reservation but return each spring to harvest camas bulbs on their ancestral lands near Fairfield. The book covers the first contact between the Native Americans and white settlers, the Bannock War of 1878, the mining era that brought such monumental changes to the land and culture, and today's Camas Lily Days Festival. Generously illustrated with historical photos, A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area also includes a handsome touring map, the reproduction of an informative map from 1881, a timeline of key events, and the text of local historical highway markers that help tell the story." --