History and the Oregon Trail

A guided day on the history of the country: the Oregon Trail across the Blue Mountains, the 1878 Bannock War that gave Battle Mountain its name, the homesteads and the sheep outfits that followed, and the people whose homeland this is.

See Our Story for the history of the ranch and of Battle Mountain.

Sources

• [Lewis A. McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names, 3rd ed. (1952)](https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-EBS-137)