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The flat lake w/the user friendly peninsula was the 2 sites, one on each lake were gold mines for points. Never did archeologists come to the rescue. In clearing the spots for the 2 lakes and the numerous golf courses i was able to collect artifacts. The flattest lake(an ancient beaver pond) had a 3 acre peninsula Flat creek is a wide flat clear creek with lots of beaver ponds. It is a large basin shaped area and very sandy. It is a golf community with 2 large dammed lakes at least 100 cares each on Flat Creek. Twenty miles from my house is a pricy community called Peachtree City. There's lots of history in the general region. It was a green place with water where the weary travelers could find "succor" (relief from stress) for a few days before heading on into the miles of dry desert separating them from Oregon's Willamette Valley. Succor Creek, the gem bonanza in east Oregon's Owyhees, was greatly-anticipated as a destination by the wagon trains.
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Fort Hall was established near Pocatello for the protection of emigrants and as a resupply point. The Oregon Trail paralleled the Snake River to the current Oregon border. At least one buried cache of beautiful Clovis points was discovered further to the northwest and they date from about 13,000 years ago.Įast Idaho was a crossroads for both Native Americans and European settlers. The skeleton has been dated at around 11,000 years, and those remains along with 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man on the Columbia, show that people have lived in the region for a very long time although not much archaeological evidence has survived (or at least hasn't yet been found). One of the oldest examples of human remains in the U.S., Buhl Woman, was found in a quarry not very far from the Shoshone Falls. The fish diverted into the Snake's tributary streams such as the Salmon River. The falls tower 212 feet in height, 45 feet higher than Niagara. They were stopped by the river's Shoshone Falls barrier in the south-central part of the state. Many ancients were attracted to the Snake River to harvest food from the huge numbers of salmon that swam upstream from the Columbia to spawn. I've seen a few small "gem" points knapped from chalcedony and agate. Many were beautifully knapped and ranged in size from small bird points to large spear points. Nearly all the points I've seen from that region were made from obsidian. Sacajawea was a Shoshone and I was born not many miles from where she was. Snake Indian is a collective name given to the Northern Paiutes, Bannocks and Shoshones. The river got its name from the Snake Indians that lived near it, not from its twisty course as many mistakenly believe. Many different tribes came there for the abundant game and fish in Snake River. They were all relatively recent (several hundred years tops I'm guessing although people have inhabited the region for some 11,000 years). When I was younger I hunted points in east Idaho where I grew up.