Today, Jan 29, is the 157th anniversary of the Bear River Massacre of 1863. Colonel Patrick Connor from Fort Douglas led a detachment of U.S Army Soldiers and attacked a winter camp of hundreds of Shoshone men, women, and children.
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Bear River at the site of the Shoshone winter encampment north of Preston, ID.
Some survivors hid in the willows along the edge of this river. Jan 2020. |
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| Site of the battlefield, much of which is now farmland. Jan 2020. |
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| Chairman Darren Parry speaking at today's memorial event. Jan 2020. |
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