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Camas Prairie lies in the high country north of the Snake River Plain. Each spring and early summer, Shoshone, Bannock and Northern Paiute families gathered here to hunt and dig camas bulbs, an important food that could be prepared and stored. In 1820 the fur trader Donald Mackenzie crossed the prairie on his return from the Lost River country. The wet meadows and surrounding hills remained part of a much older seasonal round.