• Estimates of Shoshone casualties are as high as 384.[4] It is also known as Bear River Battleground or Massacre at Boa Ogoi.
  • “The story of the Bear River Massacre isn’t for the faint of heart…but it’s a story we can learn from.”
  • A few miles northwest of Preston, Idaho on US Highway 91 you'll come to the site of the Bear River Massacre.
  • The Bear River Massacre Site offers a glimpse into a tragic yet significant event in American history.
  • In the early morning darkness, the soldiers attacked the winter camp of Chief Bear Hunter on Battle Creek, trapping them in the ravine, and slaughtered at least 250...
  • A view from a bluff overlooking the site of the Bear River Massacre, near Preston, Idaho.
  • The January 29, 1863 Bear River Massacre of 250 or more Native Americans, by Colonel Patrick Connor and his troops, occurred here.
  • On the morning of 29 January 1863 Colonel Patrick Connor and his regiment of California Volunteers attacked a Shoshone village along the Bear River in present...
  • Color slide image of a gathering at the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre in Franklin County, Idaho, January 2002.
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  • The Shoshoni tribe would spend winters at this bend of the Bear River because of the natural hot springs (bottom right corner.)
  • Idaho Commission on the Arts 9543 W Emerald Street, Suite 204 Boise, ID 83704.
  • The Bear River Massacre has been overlooked in the history of the American West chiefly because it occurred during the Civil War when a more important struggle...
  • The National Park Service’s Battlefield Protection Program has awarded the Idaho State Historical Society a grant to survey and map the massacre site with metal...