Thousands of emigrants
crossed
southwestern Idaho between
1843 and 1870 on their way
to the Willamette River valley in Oregon.
With their possessions loaded in wagons pulled by
oxen, they struggled across the dusty sagebrush-covered desert in
search of a new home and a better life. The Idaho desert proved to
be some of the most dangerous and difficult travel that they
endured.
The trail runs to the north of this place.