Hazel’s parents weren’t aware they’d seen anything untoward. One year her great grandfather, a missionary from the UK, came to visit. After the government bought the ranch from them in 1927, they continued working the place for another couple of years when Walter acquired a place on Mahogany Mountain. It merges with the West Little Owyhee River[10] from the south, then receives the Middle Fork Owyhee River[11] and North Fork Owyhee River[12] from the east at a location known as "Three Forks." [2][4] This trip … There is general recognition that the name of Malheur County comes from the Malheur River that flows through it. The compiler has no evidence that this event did not happen, but thinks it highly improbable that the name of the town originated in such a manner, and places no credence in the story.”  But the town was in Willow Creek valley, two watersheds distant from the Malheur River, and in the absence of any other evidence the story seems reasonable enough. There were even Chinese who supplied the cooks for the hotel her family ran. [15] The new wilderness areas are: After negotiations involving Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, the Owyhee Act introduced in November 2019. In the course of field work conducted in 1967 and 1968, Dr. Agenboard identified two jump complexes on Wild Horse Table, a basalt mesa that straddles the divide between the Owyhee river and Snake river drainages. (On the weekends it sometimes becomes a noisy party venue and ATV wheelie course.) But the Owyhee Canyonlands didn’t make the cut. Talk about something to be proud of! Didn’t happen. We drove to Jordan Craters and walked around a bit. It is quite probable that the name which this county bears was given to the river of the same name by a party of French trappers attached to this old trading post [i.e., Fort Boise]. Most of the camps have wonderful hikes to the rim of the canyon or other viewpoints to see some of the geologic wonders. Both were fascinating. But this is not the failing of one side. That letter not only launched my research into the family but also to an effort to put my findings into a form that daughter Claudia and others would want to read. Jesse’s father, William, who had emigrated from England in 1883, had homesteaded 152 plus acres in 1917. Comments (0). The rock wall that encloses three sides is quite substantial and looks more like a breastwork than a corral. In an effort to assuage local concerns, they have pointed to protections provided under the Wilderness Act of 1964 for ongoing economic activities such as grazing and mining. 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Louell Shaver, who later married Riley Horn, original owner of the Hole in the Ground ranch, went twice a week by horse to pick up the Watson mail at Rockville, Idaho (later relocated across the border into Oregon). Appropriately the two reprobates died in the same year, 1975.). But history and the local culture are extremely important to the people of the Jordan Valley area. “They just won’t talk to one another,” Mike said. If fly fishing the Owyhee River is not enough, we also serve you gourmet lunches from Porterhouse Deli in Eagle, Idaho. The cliffs on either side were beautiful, and I marveled at being able to admire close up a part of the canyon that Conley and Stacia would have had to squint to see as they made their trip down river for supplies. Mike’s family has been in Jordan Valley more than four generations, and there is no one more concerned in preserving the history of the place than he. 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. **Names are given as they appear in the interview transcripts. Disturbing archaeological sites, rockshelters, petroglyphs, and other artifacts is a felony prohibited by federal law. Owyhee River boaters can expect a full immersion into a remarkable desert river ecosystem. But I think they went beyond. The sky was beautifully clear and the sun bright portending a warm trek. Lara and Sofie Capturing the Sunset at Warner Overlook. And historians. In any case, jump site or not, Wild Horse Table now rested near the top of my list of Owyhee sites to visit. True to my expectations, I didn’t find much about Basque emigration in the French portion of Basque country. Having witnessed Jeep’s handling of his father’s not insubstantial estate, she chose daughter Claudia over her husband to administer her estate. The highway out of Jordan Valley was posted with bright orange warnings of slippery roads ahead. The girls were ecstatic. | Behind the sometimes strident comments about environmentalists and recreationists from some corners of the ranching community, one can sense a general frustration with the absence of empathy and understanding among outsiders. That in turn gives rise to guilt feelings, since studies have suggested that social interaction can improve cognitive function and increase brain volume, which has been correlated with a reduced risk of dementia. In response to Claudia’s questions I wrote mom, and after a long delay she replied with a seventeen-page history of the family on her side as she knew it. My favorite part was obviously riding Cheks and I bet Lara’s favorite part was riding Captain (aka Captain Sassy).”. "[6], About one-third of the men with Donald MacKenzie's Snake Country Expeditions of 1819–20 were Hawaiians, commonly called "Kanakas" or "Sandwich Islanders" in those days, with "Owyhee" being a standard period spelling of the proper Hawaiian language name for the islands, hawai'i, which then was otherwise unused in English. The Owyhee flows north along the east side of the Independence Mountains before it proceeds through southwestern Idaho where it is joined by the South Fork of the Owyhee River before reaching the Oregon border. I remember as a child accompanying my grandparents to their home after they had sold the ranch and moved to Fruitland and then Ontario. One Ontario businesswoman fairly screamed at me and even took down my name simply because I had asked whether she favored protection for the Owyhee Canyonlands. Driving through the countryside we saw billboards advertising Euskara language courses. The goal of a “landscape history” is what brought me to the Owyhee. Ultimately we made it to the site of the long-gone sheep bridge and then to an improved road that took us to the diversion dam. Comments (0). 1984, Congress designated 120 miles of the Owyhee River in Oregon as a wild river component of the National Wild and Scenic River System. The Owyhee River’s National Wild and Scenic River corridor passes through southeastern Oregon and enters Lake Owyhee. 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. Nothing. Posted on 09/14/2019 at 05:40 PM in Archeology, Life in the Owyhee, Owyhee history, Owyhee river | Permalink | Comments (0) Reblog (0) 15 August 2019. That evening we soaked in the campground hot springs. Hattie would later moved to Ontario, where according to the 1940 US Census, she lived with her widowed mother and cleaned houses for as much as seventy hours a week. Like most Americans, I imagine, I have thought of Basque nationalism (i.e., the desire for a Basque state) only in terms of the Basques in Spain. Now very few of the old Jordan Valley folks remain. It seems to be available in every ranch supply store I’ve ever been in. The 800 foot rock wall was easily identifiable and is visible even on Google maps, if one knows where to look. This time was different. On the Spanish version she found a stunning blog with pages about Basque emigration from Vizcaya in general and Leikitio in particular to the Owyhee–AMERIKANUAK Historias de la emigración vasca en América. Wells Fargo had an office at Sheep Ranch and the only telegraph station in Jordan Valley, which proved of critical importance during the Bannock-Paiute uprising of 1878. On December 31, 1863, Owyhee became the first county created by the newly-formed Idaho territorial legislature. 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. Its extent was defined as “that terri-tory lying south of the Snake River and west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains.” By 1879, it was reduced to its present size, bordered by Nevada on the … At the same time they were drawn by the gold rushes of the time, particularly in Nevada but also including the Owyhee region. They raised horses and cattle, some hay, vegetables and “lots of fruit.”  While living and ranching upriver at the Hole in the Ground, the Davises continued to lease the place. She wasn’t in, so I took a seat at a table to use the library’s Wifi and to explore the stacks. 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. They probably married within a day after Hattie got off the train. Her two brothers, Donald and Harold, did all the chores; her father believed she needn’t do anything. That letter contained much I had heard as a child but even more that was new to me. Additionally, I am always struck by how closely some of the petroglyphs in the Owyhee canyonlands resemble archaic Chinese graphs. While later histories each explain the name’s meaning (it is not clear whether the rendering in parentheses above is by Ogden or the editor), they also offer detail beyond what Ogden recorded, mostly following the 1902 Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, which relates. In response, A respectful exchange between reasonable people should be possible. The name of the river is from the older spelling of "Hawaii. When people abandoned such places, they might take the lumber from the buildings to use in building a new place elsewhere. 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. Before the dam was built, there were something like thirty-six waterwheels on the river from Birch Creek to where the dam is now. I was disappointed to find nothing at the museum about Basque emigration. In the public campgrounds I could sleep on the ground next to the trailer, but most RV parks don’t allow that. After that we went to visit Hazel (Glenn’s mother). The latter is really a coffee shop with espresso drinks, Italian sodas and fine ice cream, but also with excellent burritos and owner Cindy Beckwith’s homemade cinnamon rolls, cookies and hospitality. He had a hack with a canvas top, side curtains and space for extra seats. Owyhee County History Idaho's first county - past, present and future . Hazel’s “own people” were English, but other settlers hailed from the Isle of Man, Scotland and Germany. eleven hundred acre ranch owned by J.P. Merrill and John Milky. The gorge affords winter … 1. Near the fort, Indians killed one of the men and took the sheep. While it is true that with a good map it is sometimes possible to locate where there might have been a post office, store, school or even a village, usually the only sign anything was there is a grove of tall cottonwood or locust trees that had been planted to provide shade and lumber. The river's drainage basin is 11,049 square miles (28,620 km2) in area, one of the largest subbasins of the Columbia Basin. | That soak (108º-As good as Iceland!) The first buckboard ride was Lara’s and mine. By the end of the century, the property had become an eleven hundred acre ranch owned by J.P. Merrill and John Milky. In the meantime, I mucked about the website in growing frustration as I tried to figure out how to contact one Koldo San Sebastian, whose picture and name were on the site but whose contact information was not. Why not now? …. We have just spent a week in Bayonne, the capital of Pays Basque in southwestern France. Realtime Gage Height data is provided by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation telemetry. “I know him,” she said and grabbed the phone to ring him up. Google Earth just doesn’t show much, and I had to remind myself that prior to the dam it was probably just a grassy knoll among many others now lying beneath the water. 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. Lewis MacArthur speculates that the town’s name came from the same source as the river. 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. An eager aficionado of the history of the Owyhee, Tim seized the opportunity to arrange a visit to the ruin and invited me along. Even policemen wear the flag of the Basque Autonomous Community on their shoulders where in other countries one would see the national flag. The past week we have been in Bayonne, capital of Pays Basque, the French share of the Basque country. Moreover, when I asked Hazel how she thought outsiders viewed the residents of Jordan Valley, she replied, “Hill-Billyish. The full trip took about an hour and a half. 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. Her folks never got up early, and the family ate breakfast together. The final stretch of the river, below Owyhee Dam, emerges from the Owyhee Plateau and enters the Snake River Plain. We did indeed come across a spot on the rim wall about thirty feet wide and perhaps fifteen feet high filled with rock art. Interesting, but there is too much here I don’t know, and two weeks in Basque Country (Spain as well as France) will hardly cure my ignorance. Despite the role that they played, comparatively little has been written about the I.O.N. 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, to the best of my knowledge, first appears in the journal of Hudson’s Bay Company trader Peter Skene Ogden: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1826  We encamped on the River au Malheur (unfortunate river) so called on account of goods and furs hid here discovered and stolen by natives. When I looked at it, I found it to be the very material I’d been deciphering on the AMERIKANUAK website! It will be noted that the Illustrated History introduced a bit of etymological misinformation that has been repeated by later writers, including Hanley and MacArthur. It is striking that many families continue following this sort of lifestyle after many generations. But I’ve seen nothing about the others other aside from an occasional note about where a person’s ancestors hailed from. Without careful conservation, the potential ramifications for public lands in the Owyhee are dismaying. I momentarily considered turning around again, but I was in need of a beer, so I continued on back. It was Lara, however, who provided the unexpected reaction a few days after returning to Portland when she came to me with a small booklet she had made and asked me to write on each page the biographical information of the occupants of each grave, beginning with my mother. (I hate the noise and already have tinnitus.). Agenboard concluded there was no zoomorphic representation on those at the Five Fingers site, but I’m not so sure. I didn’t begrudge having to carry three liters of water. 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. This worked better for us the next few nights. Elias asked. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of Basques left northern Spain and emigrated to what is known now as I.O.N. After completing the Arock school, Hazel did her Freshman year in Jordan Valley under the tutorship of the Ontario Educational District and then went to Ontario to complete high school. Our last morning in Jordan Valley morning we packed up the trailer, stopped at the Rock House for cappuccinos, hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls, and then we headed across the Idaho border for Nampa to see my half-sister Karen. But the east channel was now barely visible. Comments (1), Welcome: There are different descriptions of the layout of the front section:  Writer Stacy Peterson says that on the ground floor there were three small sleeping rooms for women, while on the upper floor, accessible by an outside stairway, were the men’s quarters. He was noted for his singing voice and his version of “A Little White Duck” that he was called upon to perform. The first grave I came to was that of Josephene Shaver (11/17/1851-3/12/1916). At ninety-eight, she is still sharp and engaging. With scenic, historical, zoological, geological, botanical, archaeological, hunting, fishing, float boating and wilderness values. Food was so scarce that families spent most of their time traveling from place to place, searching for what little the desert offered. This could involve tramping through some cheat grass! With just one free day before Glenn’s atlatl event, I set out to make the foray that was the purpose of my return to Jordan Valley for–the trek down the river from Birch Creek to the Griffith Place where my godparents Conley and Stacia Davis had ranched before buying the place at Hole in the Ground, and then on to the Island Ranch where there remains the remnants of a large water wheel built by Carlton Fretwell, Glenn’s grandfather. In response, others have likewise repeatedly described potential advantages of a monument declaration, describing economic benefits deriving from recreation and tourism being enjoyed in such places as Grand Teton and Staircase-Escalante. Occasionally there might be grange hall (occasionally still in use) or an old cemetery. After coffee and breakfast, we drove the rest of the short distance to Wild Horse Table. 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. Although I haven’t yet uncovered anything that pertains to Basques in the Owyhee, who mainly originated in the fishing villages of  northern Spain, I have come across some other interesting developments. The river offers outstanding scenery, recreation, geology, wildlife, and cultural values. Something like forty ranches were eliminated. At dawn I was startled awake by the bawling of a cow peering through my rear window. Sometimes referred to as Oregon's Grand Canyon, the river has deep and spectacular canyons that reveal 14 million years of geologic history and numerous archaeological and historical sites.The river also offers a variety of recreational activities, including whitewater rafting and kayaking, hunting, fishing, and … The hardest part of that was getting the material. It was during a three-week stay in Jordan Valley this past June that I unexpectedly met Hazel. I say ghost communities rather than towns for a reason. (More could be done.) Comments (0), In Search of the Roots of the I.O.N. Although the bill made it through the house, it died in the senate. The Griffiths may have acquired additional land, since Stacia reported they had a “640 acre homestead” and an informational sign at the site says the Bureau of Reclamation bought 255 acres from the Griffiths for $5500 in 1925. Life was a pleasant. An indication of what was in store was the pair of roadside turkey vultures greeting us as we approached the mountain. In 1914, with money borrowed from their uncle José Navarro, Pascual Eiguren and Manuel Navarro bought the Sheep Ranch. 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. And it’s not just Americans. Man and the Landscape; 3. Three nights in Donostia and we moved on to Lekeitio, a beautiful fishing port built around a Gothic Basilica de la Asuncion de Santa Maria dating from the 15th century and blessed with some lovely beaches that draw scores of vacationers in the summer. Jacob Ray Gregg in his 1950 Pioneer Days in Malheur County follows this account nearly verbatim with minor changes in word order. We made the rim not far from a large pond, which was shallow and filled with vegetation. A two-story section was added in 1865 with the help of cavalry troops that had been moved into the area to provide security. Jesse himself  homesteaded 320 acres nearby in 1924. Once my horizons were lifted beyond English I began to discover more had been done on the Owyhee Basques than I realized. well I was just saying they didn’t have a care in the world, and they had a lot of cares.”. At one time it was known for serving “Basque cuisine,” which made it worth the stop if just for the experience. My hopes for a civil exchange of views promptly wilted before the blast. And Oregonians. It was on the stacks that I discovered that Marcel had been too modest about his collection. I backed up into my grandmother, alarmed. My family's connection with the Malheur country extends back many years. An Illustrated History of Baker, Malheur and Grant Counties. Watson turned out to be only twenty minutes from where I’d turned back the previous day. I could have sworn there was no road and that he was making it up. I shared the articles with Tim Davis, who agreed that a short visit to Wild Horse Table was in order. Generally, however, both sets of rock art seem concerned with astronomical phenomena. Basques. The most important community along the Owyhee river north of Jordan Creek was Watson, which ironically does not appear on BLM maps. Tuesday took us to the part of the Canyon I really wanted to show the girls. References (For full citations see “Resources: History, Culture, Geography and Geology”). We grew up in the region and I graduated from Weiser high school just downriver. Comments (0). 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. The impression one gets traveling around Bayonne is that there is deep pride in Basque culture and language. The day we visited, Silver City was the destination of hordes of ATVs and Mormon crickets. He admits this won’t be easy, and at times it will be demoralizing. 1975 Dodge van and the remnants of an old shed. Introduction ; 2. True, the ‘lake’ is dominated by fisher folk. The Owyhee Dam (1932) Owyhee River, river formed by the junction of several forks in the southwestern corner of Idaho, U.S. Being at the upper end of the reservoir, only parts of Watson were flooded; when the reservoir is down much of that is revealed. The human history that follows the expedition is filled with the same characters that inhabit many western stories. In the case of one’s own family, I consider this an obligation to give recognition to our antecedants and a duty to provide a meaningful past to our children and those who come after them. The highlight of the Burns stay wasn’t the food, however, but the motel swimming pool where Sofie met a young boy her age traveling with his German grand parents. They were taken with Thales’ and Zada’s garb and wanted to know where they could get hats and boots. Author: Bonnie J. Olin Book Size: 9.5″ W X 8″ H Style: Softcover – Full Color Pages: 170 Retail Price: $35.00 (free media mail shipping within the U.S.A.) An Excerpt. Still, it is important to help Owyhee residents understand that there are threats to their way of life ultimately greater than those they fear from protection. Her son Glenn, owner of the Oxbow Trailer Park where I had my travel trailer, introduced me. These images are of the Owyhee Hotel stained glass dome. River Crossing is to the Right. She added to Frank’s reputation as a rustler and horse thief, noting there had been a spot not far from her parents’ home called the “calf pasture” where Frank kept rustled stock. To return to the blog posts, hit cmd+cursor left. The following couple of years were spent in fitful ruminating over possible ways of getting to Watson short of walking or borrowing an ATV. Arbitrarily choosing the 1978 volume, I pulled it down and opened it randomly to an article entitled “Buffalo Jump Complexes in Owyhee County, Idaho.”  The author was Larry D. Agenbroad, originally a Nampa, Idaho boy who began college studies at Boise Jr College; at the time of the article he was professor of Geology and Paleontology at Northern Arizona University. I was surprised to learn of this currency, which came into existence in 2013 and is modeled on the euro. At the time, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt explained that there had been insufficient time to address the concerns of ranchers and OHV users. George Palmer mentions a Nanny Franks (aka Nanny Maupin) who lived near Dry Creek Butte, which, according to George,  “some old plug” renamed Nanny’s Nipple.”  The butte retained that name and is visible from the Twin Springs campground. A river, a dam, a lake, a mountain range, streets, a county, a city, and a hotel among other things, bear the name Owyhee. Relieved, I headed down the hill. By this point, we were beginning to understand the limitations of our 17’ Casita. The initial discovery was along Jordan Creek, and mining activity rapidly spread through the Owyhee watershed. The graves left me feeling sad, especially after seeing some graves that looked all broken and uncared for. People we talked with all exhibited pride in being Basque, even though they were not descended from Basques but simply (!) There have been other times when I have tried to follow a road that is indicated on a BLM or USGS map but which has in reality disappeared. And then when they really started galloping straight towards us, I was shivering with fear. The Owyhee River enters the Snake River from the west on the Oregon–Idaho border approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Nyssa, Oregon, and 2 miles (3 km) south of the mouth of the Boise River. In his final weeks in office, he designated several outstanding landscapes and historical sites as national monuments. Without a lecture there had resulted a moment of understanding. 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. I don't know." The Sheep Ranch Fort still stands on the Eiguren ranch, and though it has deteriorated, the family plans to preserve it, though not necessarily render it habitable again. 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