A SENSE OF PLACE : THEN & NOW

These two photos evoke a sense of this place and its history as a homeland to both the Agaidika – Lemhi Shoshoni and the succeeding generations of settlers who found shelter, sustenance, and safety in these valleys of the Lemhi, Salmon, and Pahsimerai (original spelling) rivers. When gold was discovered in the Salmon River Range in 1866, archaeological evidence demonstrates that the antecedents of the Agaidika had been in this region at least 10,000 years.

The location of this photograph on the high bar served as camping site to the Shoshoni with a traditional burial ground above them and, after 1866, as the Pollard Ranch, the Oliver ranch, the Jolley ranch, and finally, the Smedley subdivision.