Historic map of Bear River massacre site in Franklin County, Idaho. (Photo: Utah Historical Society) But it's difficult to imagine, looking around at what appears to be a simple plot of flattened ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Idaho — The Northwestern Band of Shoshone marked a somber day Monday on the anniversary of the Bear River Massacre, the single deadliest attack on Native Americans in the ...

Each year, current leaders of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation hold a memorial to ensure the massacre — known as the Bear River Massacre — is never forgotten. On Monday, a memorial ...

PRESTON — A crowd of dozens gathered in the cold morning air to remember those who lost their lives in the Jan. 29, 1863, Bear River Massacre. The annual memorial service was held Wednesday, Jan ...

During the Bear River Massacre in 1863, around 200 U.S. Army soldiers killed at least 350 Shoshone men, women and children.

Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestral homeland — called Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River — with ...

I enjoyed reading the piece in the Sunday paper (May 31) by Steve Crump regarding the Bear River Massacre and felt compelled to add additional information. I grew up in ...