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Archeologists tell us that prehistoric people lived among the strange formations in these Albion Mountains of southern Idaho. But the history of the last century is perhaps most relevant to our interest in the City of Rocks today. By the mid1800s the great westward migration of EuropeanAmericans began to make an impact on the land and the history of this Nation. The movement of thousands of emigrants across the plains and mountains into the Far West was a dramatic event unduplicated in our history. The 2.000 miles of land traversed included dry plains. rugged mountain ranges. and parched deserts inhabited by nomadic. often hostile. Indians.