As we left Jordan Valley, D&B became the object of their repeated query “Are we there yet?” When we did finally make it they got complete outfits. The boots gave a firm grip, but once I reached the other side the foam in the tongue and around the tops required a good wringing that still left enough moisture to keep my feet cool for the rest of the hike. My grandfather became an owner of the Moore Hotel in the 1920s. The girls were ecstatic. The grove of locust trees was a sure indication of a homestead, but I could see no buildings. Part of the designation includes the section of the river downstream from the Owyhee Dam, where the river flows through a remote section of deeply incised canyons surrounded by high canyon rims that are habitat for mountain lion, bobcat, Mule Deer, California Bighorn Sheep, and a large variety of raptors. Defacing, disturbing, or removing historic/prehistoric artifacts is prohibited. An Oregon High Desert Journey Last month, accompanied by grand daughters Sofie and Lara (10 and 5 respectively) and Mei-Yueh, I headed out for Eastern Oregon to first visit Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge followed … The visit to the Eiguren place was an excellent introduction into the lessons of rural life. But interestingly there is nothing at either site that could be identified as a possible buffalo. Watson’s place as a community center was supported by the rock house built by George Palmer in 1912. The mixture of peoples who settled here adds significance to that knowledge. Basques. The only structure there now is a pit toilet for the BLM campground. Disturbing archaeological sites, rockshelters, petroglyphs, and other artifacts is a felony prohibited by federal law. George was married to Grace Shaver, and they had a daughter Dorothy. They followed the trail, found the sheep near the river, and brought them back but did not encounter raiding party. Island Ranch Site. The river offers outstanding scenery, recreation, geology, wildlife, and cultural values. One finds the same with miners, lumbermen, commercial fishermen and who supports themselves with hard labor in an extractive endeavor. The following morning I was torn. An Idaho Ghost Town in the Owyhee … Granted, these are more often than not collections of anecdotes about people and places that might strike the trained historian as amateurish. Sofie can describe it best: “The next stop on our eight-day trip was Jordan Valley. On the 19th we returned to Portland stopping in Pendleton on the way to get bandanas to complete their western outfits at the Hamley Saddle & Western Store, a local landmark. He has an agenda, and we’re on completely opposite sides on many points. Cottonwood and locust trees in otherwise arid, treeless spaces are typically an indication of long-gone habitation. This wasn’t to be merely a camping trip. But if one follows a map and even road signs in search of one of these places, what he often finds is merely a junction or perhaps an old abandoned school building, such as that at Sheaville on Highway 95 about ten miles north of Jordan Valley. George Palmer estimated the average wheel was 28-32 ft. in diameter, and he knew of one that was 50 ft. James Page guessed that a few folks had 60 ft. wheels. PROVISIONAL DATA SUBJECT TO REVISION . I spent several afternoons asking (and answering) questions and listening. Off the highway, we followed an improved gravel road until Glenn told me to stop. In the West however, the … An indication of what was in store was the pair of roadside turkey vultures greeting us as we approached the mountain. While I had heard people speak off-handedly of buffalo in the Owyhee region, the information was more in the form of canards than fact. Everyone in this debate needs to recognize that in a broad sense what we all want is the same. At the beginning I thought I could see a track, but it soon disappeared and for the next few miles he guided me through mature sage brush and around rock mounds. There are several easy access areas throughout the canyon. I ignored friend Julie Weikel’s admonition to go straight from the Toyota dealer to Les Schwab’s. The past week we have been in Bayonne, capital of Pays Basque, the French share of the Basque country. In the last post about the Owyhee River, I talked a lot about the history of the Owyhee River and why America’s Rafting Company loves this little river, “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” so much. She has Down Syndrome and at 59 is slowly sliding into dementia, which sometimes makes visits short. Featured Outfitter Northwest Rafting Company (541) 450-9855 is an award-winning group of professional, well-trained guides that … Just across the river from the mouth of Leslie Gulch was Hugh’s brother Wilmer’s place. “Ghost town” conjures up an image of abandoned buildings with sagging roofs, missing window panes and odds and ends of broken furniture. I discovered the letters ‘J.V.’ painted on the side of the mountain above town. The Owyhee River then enters extreme southeast Oregon in southern Malheur County, generally flowing north in a zigzag course west of the Idaho border. My grandparents never lived in the Owyhee country, but their good friends Conley and Stacia Davis did. The trip offered a striking lesson in cartographical stubbornness. Merkley has said he didn’t necessarily oppose a national monument, but that it should only be undertaken after local concerns were addressed. Journal entries in 1826 by Peter Skene Ogden, a fur trapper who led subsequent Snake Country Expeditions for the Hudson's Bay Company refer to the river primarily as the "Sandwich Island River," but also as "S.I. Luckily by then Mike had returned. Those like Hazel and Mike Hanley see history as the way to nurture a needed understanding. I left a flower on an especially sad looking [neighboring] grave. The following day a man dropped off a quarter of beef from Frank on their porch. Both had brought forth an unending stream of questions. Comments (0). The highway out of Jordan Valley was posted with bright orange warnings of slippery roads ahead. Basques. I took off the watch and attached it to a belt loop where it would be shaded by the tail of my white Columbia Omni-Shade shirt and unaffected by my body heat. We visited the Baker Heritage Museum, which has my grandmother Claudia’s class picture hanging on the wall. In the afternoon Elias had to get back to baling, so we headed south along the Owyhee canyon to an overlook where the girls got their first glimpse of the canyon’s magnificence and took pictures (they had commandeered two of my cameras), and we ate our picnic lunch. (See “Yes, Buffalo Did Once Roam Here.”), Posted on 09/17/2018 at 09:45 PM in Archeology, Owyhee history | Permalink Lake Owyhee is actually a 53-mile long reservoir resulting from the Owyhee River dam. In 1984, Congress designated 120 miles (193 km) of the Owyhee, beginning at the Idaho-O… But the Owyhee Canyonlands didn’t make the cut. The ranch site was visible from a distance, though without a decent map, GPS or binoculars I found it difficult to be certain. The name of the river is from the older spelling of "Hawaii." There were only four. I find it interesting and sometimes puzzling that people who led such a hard life were not anxious to give it up and look for something “better.” To the contrary, they and their descendants have found it a source of pride and are rightly offended by those who view them with disdain. "[7] It was named for three Hawaiian trappers, in the employ of the North West Company, who were sent to explore the uncharted river. Sofie continues: “The next day we (unfortunately) had to wake up just as early. I didn’t ask, but I suspect Tim may have put her up to it. It was a beginning. The exact timing is a bit unclear, and this has presented a challenge to my family history research. I wake up a few hours before sunrise and take a walk down to the boat ramp, and then onto a deer trail along the Owyhee River. My mother never sat my brother and me down to tell the family’s story. After trying to explain who I was and what I wanted, she handed me the phone, and we agreed to meet that afternoon at a quayside bar. The river runs through the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and then past the communities of Mountain City and Owyhee in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. The buckets were made by hand from sheet metal. The main tributary of the South Fork is the Little Owyhee River.[9]. So like I said, the graveyard was a twist to our trip and left me feeling moodier than ever, really. So true have I found that, I never mutter a single epithet loading or unloading this slender but heavy beauty that is longer than my 4Runner. Gaiser’s dissertation does explain, however, a point that has piqued my curiosity as I have gone through the 1980 BLM interviews with early residents of the Owyhee Canyon. In the afternoon we drove out to Guano Creek canyon to the site of the Old Camp Warner where 96 Native Americans were massacred in 1866 by a local posse and a company of soldiers. Due to this the river and its region were named "Owyhee." Admittedly, we did not make a serious search, but Agenboard noted that collectors had been there sifting for potsherds and projectile heads. Recently Gabriel Howe of the Siskiyou Mountain Club, who describes himself as “bleeding heart conservationist” from a logging family, wrote eloquently in the. Owyhee River Local History. Complete citations may be found in the Sidebar under RESOURCES: HISTORY, CULTURE, GEOGRAPHY & GEOLOGY, Posted on 02/07/2017 at 08:00 AM in Malheur County, Owyhee history | Permalink The human history that follows the expedition is filled with the same characters that inhabit many western stories. We chose some lava rocks and headed off to our next stop. The Davises took lumber from the house of another ranch–the McNulty place–to build stables on the Griffith; they also moved a cabin in its entirety to use as a shop. Especially fascinating was the tour she and son Glenn took me on of the Jordan Creek irrigation district with its diversion dam and the remnants of a bridge that had been built to move sheep across the creek. Such things are difficult for the non-specialist to interpret–and perhaps too easy for the specialist to over-interpret. Getting There: From Elko, take State Route 225 – 70 miles north. As is common in this part of the country, within half an hour the wind had abated, the waves smoothed, the thunder died and sunlight dappled the hillsides. Well, perhaps not entirely so. River Crossing is to the Right. | This is all pretty clear, and the attribution has been made in successive histories of the area. Diameters of thirty feet or more do not seem to have been unusual. So it was quite natural that this long train of misfortune should cause the name of the river ”Mal (bad or unfortunate) heur (hour of time),” or, translating freely, the “unhappy” river. I really wish that I could go back in time and meet all of those people. I didn’t begrudge having to carry three liters of water. His mother and stepfather had the bedroom, while he and his brother slept on the porch summer and winter keeping warm with “lots of covers.” Most of their time was spent working on the ranch with a couple of trips out each year for supplies. In any case, jump site or not, Wild Horse Table now rested near the top of my list of Owyhee sites to visit. (More could be done.) I spend a couple hours following the deer trail along the river bank. This surely was a disappointment to those hoping the impasse over protection for the Owyhee would be broken with an executive order under the authority of the Antiquities Act. Due to this the river and its region were named "Owyhee. Two Story Palmer Stone House, Site of Watson P.O. That includes the night I would spend on the floor in the Best Western motel in Nampa because I’d messed up the on-line reservation and got a room with a single king-sized bed. Agenboard concluded their purpose had been to mark the drive lanes, though to me some of them resembled cairns of the sort hikers are wont to use to mark where they’ve been. "They'd eat something else." She’s proud of Jordan Valley’s mixed heritage. Being at the upper end of the reservoir, only parts of Watson were flooded; when the reservoir is down much of that is revealed. When I am on the water, it is so effortless that I catch myself reaching to flip on a sound system that isn’t there. One of the better known of these writers is Hazel Danner Fretwell-Johnson, who has produced numerous articles and two books: In Times Past–A History of the Lower Jordan Creek Communities, and The Best of Jordan Valley. The three Kanakas were detached to trap on the river in 1819 and were probably killed by Indians that year. Most of our trip had been all happy–look at this beautiful site, this is where these people lived, oh look how wonderful! Sagebrush, Western … I’ve listened to Malheur county residents excoriating “environmentalists” from the western part of the state for wanting to “destroy” their way of life and economy in order to preserve recreational opportunities for themselves. But all they had were silk scarves, so we went to Bi Mart where the working man gets his red bandana. The Owyhee River Wilderness was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009. That is what I hoped to share with Sofie and Lara. With scenic, historical, zoological, geological, botanical, archaeological, hunting, fishing, float boating and wilderness values. But the east channel was now barely visible. The stone piles were pretty easy to identify. She thought he was probably Anglican. (Not unlike that other feckless fascist Chiang Kai-shek’s suppression of Taiwanese language and culture. The earliest settlers were a mixture of nationalities, including a large body of Irish, which explains the claim of one early settler, Bill Ross, that St. Patrick’s Day was the biggest dance of the year. I could have sworn there was no road and that he was making it up. It had been a year and a half since since I had taken my kayak out, and I was waiting for muscular reaction to force me to break out the ibuprofen. Here and there might be rusting remnants of horse-drawn farm machinery or cars and trucks. Expect your Owyhee River rafting trip to start off peaceful but then quickly build to the most difficult rapids on Days 3 and 4. But at the same time one has to be careful about lumping them together with the Catalonian independenistas. A few months back as I was passing through Jordan Valley, I stopped to see Mike. At that time, she was one of only two local students who went all the way through. Clearly there were people in Lekeitio familiar with the Basque settlement in ION country. Our first morning on the mountain, everyone piled into the 4Runner to visit Petroglyph Lake, really a large pond that usually attracts migrating birds. I had a great experience at Elias’ ranch, seeing what it was like to ride Western. Although there remained but a shell of the original building, the dome-shaped oven was in good shape and looked ready for baking bread or perhaps even a pizza. After coffee and breakfast, we drove the rest of the short distance to Wild Horse Table. Aitor cautioned that ION Basques might have difficulty with it if they still used the dialect their ancestors had brought with them since it was in “unified Basque,” the result of standardizing the various dialects. The two couples shared many values and similar views. Many of the interviews offer interesting glimpses of Basque life, and some of the informants or certainly their immediate descendants would still be alive. Generally, however, both sets of rock art seem concerned with astronomical phenomena. From there they went to the Island Ranch where they lived until 1918, when they sold the ranch and returned to Arkansas. As the owner of the RV park where we stayed those first few nights, his house was right across from where we parked our trailer. The following couple of years were spent in fitful ruminating over possible ways of getting to Watson short of walking or borrowing an ATV. Rooted in the Basque pride at being an isolate people completely unrelated to other Europeans and speaking a language said to predate Indo-European, the museum’s exhibits work their way up from prehistory into the pop culture and politics of the ‘50s, 60s and ‘70s. The last day is generally easy. Having filled up on mediocre pizza at Big John’s, we hit the road for Portland for an unhurried trip down the beautiful Columbia Gorge, arriving home in the late afternoon. Appropriately the two reprobates died in the same year, 1975.). The house they built there still stands. I regret that I knew none of this when I was at Watson. In the beginning we just walked around a bit, me alone and Lara led by Elias, and then I started to trot, while Lara refused to, even while being led. | In the course of my searches I have uncovered unknown relations, including two half sisters and a second cousin. Something like forty ranches were eliminated. From Wickahoney we followed a track that surely had not been improved since it last saw a stage coach. Hazel was born in Jordan Valley in 1920 in the home of her paternal grandfather, John Henry Danner. The final stretch of the river, below Owyhee Dam, emerges from the Owyhee Plateau and enters the Snake River Plain. Twenty minutes later and a half mile up the trail I checked again: 114º!!! Back in August when Tim Davis and I visited “Robbers Roost” (see earlier posting), our route along the old I.O.N. To read these materials, simply click on the title, which will take you to the text. An Illustrated History of Baker, Malheur and Grant Counties. As a child living in Boise, Idaho I was aware of the Basques because a fair number had migrated to the Idaho/Oregon/Nevada region at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. But as Howe writes, the effort can prove meaningful and rewarding. Although George is not mentioned in the interviews, a few other Franks are. | Miller and Janet lived at Red Butte, just downstream from the cemetery, and judging from census records, had five children–three boys and two girls. This blog comprises two parts: historical and contemporary. A sign informing that the road down into to the Birch Creek ranch was closed underscored the likelihood. A few sent their kids to Ontario, where there was a high school. 1984, Congress designated 120 miles of the Owyhee River in Oregon as a wild river component of the National Wild and Scenic River System. It all blew over before long, and she married (and soon divorced) a man who’d take me hunting. When you’re not casting a line, you can enjoy the red-rock canyon and the Owyhee’s riverside hot springs. | Add eons of tectonics, volcanism, inland seas, ice ages, earthquakes, floods and landslides, and you have an ever-changing world of rock so twisted and complex it often hides its own history. They’re a type of people all their own. It was included on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. I was disappointed to find nothing at the museum about Basque emigration. The latter also cites Ogden’s journal. During … Further west, another woman declared that the Catalonians had “messed things up. A retired journalist, for some years he has been researching the Basques who settled in the ION region and their descendants. But this is not the failing of one side. Our meeting point was the Owyhee County Historical Society Museum, chosen in hopes that someone could give us directions to the buffalo jump site. In some years–as with this one–a crawling horde Mormon crickets blankets highway 95, forcing ODOT to put up the signs. It was on the stacks that I discovered that Marcel had been too modest about his collection. We'll see what I learn in Spain. I don’t think they were expecting the lesson they got; be careful what you ask a retired academic and public affairs officer! Hazel and her parents lived first at Arock, not far from where her son Robert now ranches, and later moved to Danner, where they lived next door to her maternal grandparents. The name of the river is from the older spelling of "Hawaii. The building is known locally as “Sheep Ranch” or “Sheep Ranch Fort” and comprises two parts. Owyhee River: History (Part 2) Jan 12, 2015. I turned back, which itself was a challenge. References (For full citations see “Resources: History, Culture, Geography and Geology”). Many here express low regard for the Madrid government and its leaders and they chafe under its regulations. | On Sunday, we decided to drive up into the Owyhee Mountains to Silver City, an old mining town that has become something of a weekend tourist destination with old buildings, a church and a cemetery. And it’s a long walk back.” (Why does Toyota tout the 4 Runner for back-country exploration and equip it with tires and a jack for macadam?) Although the bill made it through the house, it died in the senate. It was the first time they had seen TVs close enough to be able to identify them, and from then on they kept their eyes peeled for the red heads and characteristic wobbly flight. Individual failings notwithstanding, my research has shown them all to be good if not always sensible folks. Elias asked. It was such fun. Relieved, I headed down the hill. The reservoir was 85% full, which meant smooth paddling all the way to Watson, though it also meant much of old Watson would be submerged. A couple of years ago while camping at the state park near the dam, I met some folks from the north end of Boise where I had lived as a kid. I can spend hours listening to one of them or in reading what they have written, published or not. It was supported by both ranchers and conservationists, as well as the Northwest Sport Fishing Association. My family's connection with the Malheur country extends back many years. One cannot but be impressed by the way that within one or two generations they could go from being a shepherd to owning a ranch or a business. (The “Big R” in Burns is another.) Didn’t happen. USGS 13183000 OWYHEE RIVER BELOW OWYHEE DAM, OR. It and several shorter walls were designed to keep the animals moving in the desired direction. We made our way out of the pasture, pushing aside other horses who wanted out, and watched Mike tack them up. Marcel suggested I talk with the town archivist and placed a call. Her son Glenn, owner of the Oxbow Trailer Park where I had my travel trailer, introduced me. He was noted for his singing voice and his version of “A Little White Duck” that he was called upon to perform. The choice of name was in itself considered unfortunate by some. Why? This was made necessary by our desire for fresh vegetables and limited space for carrying comestibles generally. The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 designated 323,274 acres (130,824 ha) on and around the Owyhee River in Idaho as wilderness. But for us–and especially Sofie and Lara–it was very special. I say “putative” because Dr. Agenbroad’s conclusions were not universally accepted. Without careful conservation, the potential ramifications for public lands in the Owyhee are dismaying. Next we headed off to Hole in the Ground, where Gonggong’s godparents’ ranch used to be. The blog was in Spanish, but I was becoming proficient with my dictionary, and my cerebral memory banks were beginning to recover some of what Mr. Trigueiro had input there decades ago. But as we started to get to know the place and the people who lived there, I started to feel as comfortable there as I had been staying in the hotel in Burns. This interest has led a number of people to write mostly self-published histories of the early settlers of the Owyhee. We may also camp by hot springs. | While one cannot argue that it is a culture as old and as deep as say the Native American cultures of the area, it nonetheless warrants an effort to understand why the residents of Jordan Valley feel threatened and to reassure them and work with them. Would they be encouraged to take similar action? Hazel’s “own people” were English, but other settlers hailed from the Isle of Man, Scotland and Germany. Now very few of the old Jordan Valley folks remain. In a telephone interview Friday, Merkley noted that never happened and that [Interior Secretary Sally] Jewell did not consider the Owyhee monument proposal “ripe for consideration.”. Fellow trappers suspected they had been killed by Indians. See below for Lake Owyhee campgrounds simultaneously more accessible and booked out early. On the right are links to chapters of a work in progress, "Life in the Early Owyhee," as well as other notes and jottings on places, people, sources and miscellany. More than the writer realized. There is an additional dichotomy between the river and the reservoir beginning at about Leslie Gulch , which is embodied in float craft (rafts and kayaks) on the river and power boats on the … Aside from news stories about terrorist acts by the Basque separatist group the ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), I really didn’t think much about them. Some of these latter buildings–such as the Sheep Station at Arock (see post for 11/06/2016) or the station at Wickahoney in Owyhee County, Idaho–were built of stone and are still more or less standing. highway took us past the Sheep Ranch Fort, a lovely and nearly intact ruin that is said to be the oldest standing structure in Malheur county. No one has with any certainty explained the majority of the images, but the girls had fun searching them out and suggesting their own interpretations. Makes it seem so sad to me that I can’t meet so many wonderful people. Introduction; Trip Details; Maps ; Book Now. Reprising A Baja Marimba Band Album Cover Meme, Posted on 07/24/2018 at 05:01 PM in Development of the Owyhee, Life in the Owyhee, Malheur County, Owyhee history, Owyhee river, Ranching | Permalink As we were chatting, he surprised me with the revelation that one of the people he most enjoyed chatting with is Western Watersheds Project founder Jon Marvel, someone who is anathema to most ranchers. Although the stay at Hart was only two nights, it proved a real adventure for the girls, who haven’t done much camping or had a lot of experience with wildlife. Last month, accompanied by grand daughters Sofie and Lara (10 and 5 respectively) and Mei-Yueh, I headed out for Eastern Oregon to first visit Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge followed by Jordan Valley and the Owyhee country. Elias replied. Jesse himself homesteaded 320 acres nearby in 1924. 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