In Idaho, an emigrant wagon train attacked and scattered by Indians

The eight wagon Otter-Van Orman emigrant train came under attack from hostile Indians on the Snake River about fifty miles west of Salmon Falls in present-day Idaho. The families defended the wagon for several days before being forced to scatter.  At the end of an ordeal that lasted for more than six weeks, eighteen had been killed and the sixteen survivors were barely alive when an Army relief force found them in late October 1860.  (By John Osborne)