Richfield

The Little Wood River descends from the Pioneer Mountains into the dry country of the Snake River Plain. Its course bends southwest through a landscape of basalt and open ground, eventually joining waters that reach the Snake. This wider country was part of the homeland of the Northern Shoshone and Bannock. Their seasonal rounds included hunting, fishing and gathering plants, among them camas bulbs stored for winter. With the spread of horses in the eighteenth century, hunting parties could also travel east in pursuit of bison.