Nyssa

Near Nyssa the Owyhee River joins the Snake, bringing water from the dry plateaus and canyons to the south. Shoshone, Bannock and Northern Paiute people used this river country for fishing, hunting and gathering. In 1811 Wilson Price Hunt's overland fur-trading party passed through the Snake country and encountered communities with stores of salmon. The rivers provided both a food source and a route through the arid interior, long before the later settlement took shape.