• Photograph of the Bear River Massacre Site, a wide, open grassland with scattered trees, low hills in the background, and a highway alongside.
  • Bear River Massacre Site in Preston Idaho. On January 29, 1863, Colonel Patrick E. Connor led a group of California Volunteers from Fort Douglas (Salt Lake...
  • Congress declared the site a National Historic Landmark in 1990. The National Park Service renamed the site the "Massacre of Bear River" in 1993.
  • Bear River Massacre Site featured image. In January, 1863, U.S. volunteer soldiers attacked the winter camp of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation...
  • The January 29, 1863 Bear River Massacre of 250 or more Native Americans, by Colonel Patrick Connor and his troops, occurred here.
  • Designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Bear River Massacre Site encompasses two areas for visitors to learn more.
  • Bear River Massacre site, looking east for the Shoshone camp. ... See: Brigham D. Madsen, The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre (1985).
  • Untitled layer. Bear River Massacre historic marker. Battle Creek ravine.
  • The Bear River Massacre Site, located near Preston in present-day Franklin County, Idaho, marks a tragic event in the history of the Northwestern Shoshone...
  • The Destruction of the Site. The massacre was branded "The Battle of Bear River" and hailed as a victory against "savages".