Boa Ogoi

Boa Ogoi, the Big River, is the Northwestern Shoshone name for the Bear River. Its long course winds through mountain valleys before reaching the Great Salt Lake, with no outlet to the sea. Shoshone communities travelled through the river country and its surrounding mountains, drawing on fish, game and plants in their seasons. Bear Lake and the valleys farther west formed part of a wider homeland whose routes extended across the northern Great Basin and toward the continental divide.