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History of Soda
Springs
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 The Soda Springs area is steeped in both geological and
pioneer history. In our "Travel The Oregon Trail in Caribou County"
brochure you can read about Sulfur Springs, Pyramid Springs,
the Brigham Young Cabin Site, the Wagon Box Grave,
Ninety-Percent Spring, Camp Connor, the Morrisite
Settlement, the signing of 1863 Shoshone-Bannock Peace
Treaty, the First Marriage in Soda Springs, Sheep Rock,
Hudspeth's Cutoff, the volcanic Cinder Cones, Chesterfield
Townsite, and the Wagon Ruts & Trail Markers left behind by
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The Wagon Box
Grave
The Wagon Box Grave headstone marks the burial site of the
emigrant family. A family of
seven, killed by Indians, was buried here together in the
wagon box from their covered wagon.
A wagon train pulled away from Little Spring Creek, where it
had camped overnight. One
man’s horses were lost and the lone family stayed behind to
hunt for them. The next morning three
trappers discovered that the
father, mother, and five children had been murdered. |
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One trapper said, " We all decided that the best
thing we could do was to bury them in their own wagon box,
—for we had no lumber to make a coffin. . . We went and got
the dead emigrants’ horses and hitched them to their wagon,
then hauled the bodies in it to the place of burial. We took
them out and laid them down on the ground. Then we took off
the wagon bed and placed it in the bottom of the grave after
it was dug. " The full story is on page 6
of our "Travel The Oregon Trail in Caribou County" brochure.
Oregon-California Trails Association
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The Oregon Trail-Bear Lake Scenic Byway
and the Pioneer Historic Byway
cross paths in Soda Springs.
The scenery is breathtaking and
history runs deep.
You can plan your
trip and see each place to visit at
America's Byways Website. |
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