HISTORY MOMENTS

The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history:

Idaho's second Territorial Governor Caleb Lyon served in that position from March 12, 1864 to June 14, 1866. Not only was it discovered that he had misdirected Nez Perce funds during that period, two weeks before his term expired he left Boise, taking with him over $46,000 in undisbursed Indian funds. The Interior Department's efforts to recover Lyon's embezzlement never succeeded.

Sir Barton won the June 11, 1919, Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. Through 2002, only ten other horses have accomplished this feat.

Since 1906, the need to protect Indian sites on U.S. government land has been recognized. Administered by the Departments of Interior and Agriculture, a law enacted by Congress on June 8 of that year prohibits the collecting, digging, or screening of any Indian arrowhead, pot, scrapers or other relics on federally-owned lands.

The first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled on June 14, 1951.

On its return trip eastward, the Corp of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark camped at a site located about two miles from the present town of Weippe from June 10-14, 1806. This was intended to be their last campsite before recrossing the Bitterroots on Lolo Trail, which had been their greatest ordeal on the trip west. However, the nearly impassible terrain of steep mountains and thick forests, deep snow and ice, extreme weather, and lack of food resulted in an unsuccessful attempt the following day to cross the mountains and forced them to return to the Prairie camp. Clark wrote, "under these circumstances we conceived it madness in this stage of the expedition to proceed without a guide who could certainly conduct us to the fishwears on the Kooskooske, as our horses could not sustain a journey of more than 4 or 5 days without food."