Humbokado

The Humboldt River flows west across the northern Great Basin, gathering streams from mountain ranges before ending in an inland sink. Its valley lies within the homelands of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone peoples, who used the river, wetlands and neighbouring uplands through the seasons. In 1828 the Hudson's Bay Company trader Peter Skene Ogden reached the river and called it the Unknown River, uncertain where its waters went. His party followed a corridor already familiar to its Indigenous inhabitants.