In remembrance of the Bear River Massacre

Youngsters admire Shoshone memorabilia during a 140th anniversary commemoration Wednesday at the site of the Bear River Massacre. U.S. soldiers attacked the Shoshones on Jan. 29, 1863, resulting in the deaths of more than 250 Shoshone men, women and children and 14 soldiers based at Fort Douglas (then Camp Douglas). The attack near Preston, Idaho, at the confluence of Bear River and Beaver Creek, is considered the largest single-incident massacre of Indians in the American West. It is often overlooked in history books because it occurred during the Civil War.