Three Island Crossing Snake River Cache Oregon Trail — Gooding County

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Three Island Crossing Snake River Cache Oregon Trail — Gooding County

Lost Treasure ID • Gooding County County
Description
Snake River legend of wagon-train valuables lost or buried at Three Island Crossing — the treacherous ford where emigrants leap-frogged gravel bars toward Fort Boise and the Columbia.
Historical Notes
Three Island Crossing State Park preserves the most famous Snake River ford on the Oregon Trail. About half of all travelers risked the dangerous crossing; others took the longer south-bank route until Gus Glenn's 1869 ferry opened upstream. Ward Massacre and other Snake River attack lore fed cache stories of emigrants burying portable wealth before fording or after capsized wagons. Idaho trail guides list multiple holdup and burial variants in the Glenns Ferry country. Coordinates mark Three Island Crossing Historic Site at Glenns Ferry. State park — legend only; respect park regulations.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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