Hole # 10

The adventurous white men who first traveled through this region came for material gain. They were establishing trade with the Indians, staking out trapping territories for the fur business, and seeking routes to the Pacific.These men first explored this region in the autumn of 1811 and winter of 1812. They were in search of a water route to Astoria from the fertile trapping territories of Eastern Idaho.Their journey was an ordeal seldom duplicated in western history. The first white men who walked the banks of the Snake River were: Wilson Price Hunt, Ramsey Crooks, John Day, Donald McKenzle, Edward Robinon, John Hoback, Jacob Rezner, Robert McLellin, John Reed, Pierre Dorion, Toulsant Caronneau.