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The Lewis and Clark expedition entered present-day Idaho on August 12, 1805, at Lemhi Pass.
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The first trip to enter southern Idaho is believed to be a group led by Wilson Price Hunt, which traveled the Snake River while attempting to take an all-water trail west from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812.
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The North West Company's interior department of the Columbia was created in June, 1816, and Donald Mackenzie was assigned as its head.
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Out of lois and clark on snake riverin Astoria, Mackenzie led fur brigades up the Snake River in 1816-1817 and up the lower Snake in 1817-1818.
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The British-owned Hudson's Bay Company next entered Idaho and controlled the trade in the Snake River area by the 1820s.
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Despite their best efforts, early American fur companies in this region had difficulty maintaining the long distance supply lines along the Missouri River.
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On March 4, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act creating Idaho Territory[15] from portions of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory
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The original Idaho Territory included most of the areas that later became the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, and had a population of under 17,000. Idaho Territory assumed the boundaries of the modern state in 1868.
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idaho becomes a state by president Benjamin Harrison and the us senate voted and idaho became a state.
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George L. Shoup became the state's first governor, but resigned after only a few weeks in office to take a seat in the United States Senate.
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During its first years of statehood, Idaho was plagued by labor unrest in the mining district of Coeur d'Alene.
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In 1892, miners called a strike which developed into a shooting war between union miners and company guards
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The struggle's began to increase. In December 1905 the assassination of former Governor Frank Steunenberg by Harry Orchard (also known as Albert Horsley), a member of the Western Federation of Miners. Orchard was allegedly incensed by Steunenberg's efforts as governor to put down the 1899 miner uprising after being elected on a pro-labor platform.
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In 1992 a stand-off occurred between U.S. Marshals, the F.B.I., and white separatist Randy Weaver and his family at their compound at Ruby Ridge, located near the small, northern Idaho town of Naples.
