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Back in the 1850s and 1860s the ION road was the interstate freeway of it's day.
ION stands for (I)daho, (O)regon and (N)evada.
This was the main road traveling from what is now the Boise area through southwest Idaho, southeast Oregon and northern Nevada to Winnemucca. Even today this is one of the most remote areas in the United States.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the infant son of Sacajewea when he was the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806, was traveling this road in 1866 on his way to a gold strike in Montana when he got sick and died at the "Inskip Ranche" stage stop west of Jordan Valley, Oregon where he was buried near the ION road.
The Chabonneau burial site with its two distinct memorial types. Note the two pealed corn husks left by Native Americans by the plaque in the first picture...
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