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  • The name Owyhee in Eastern Oregon, is a relic of these people.

    John Work's Journey from Fort Vancouver to Umpqua River, and Return, in 1834 1834

  • The mustang deaths came two days after In Defense of Animals joined ecologist Craig Downer in filing an appeal to try to block the roundup in an area known as the Owyhee complex, three management areas covering 750 square miles north of Elko.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • While fishing for trophy brown trout in the Owyhee river, I caught some 7-10 lb flannelmouth suckers on rapala husky jerks.

    Grass carp...with a crankbait? 2009

  • I was fishing with a friend in the Owyhee river and it has steep banks.

    bad luck?!? 2009

  • Deputies from Nevada and Idaho's Owyhee County searched the rugged river canyons and mountain sides along the north border of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, about 15 miles northeast of the federally protected Jarbidge Wilderness Area.

    Teams seek man whose wife survived 7 weeks in bush 2011

  • While fishing for trophy brown trout in the Owyhee river, I caught some 7-10 lb flannelmouth suckers on rapala husky jerks.

    Grass carp...with a crankbait? 2009

  • I was fishing with a friend in the Owyhee river and it has steep banks.

    bad luck?!? 2009

  • Deputies from Nevada and Idaho's Owyhee County searched the rugged river canyons and mountain sides along the north border of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, about 15 miles northeast of the federally protected Jarbidge Wilderness Area.

    Teams seek man whose wife survived 7 weeks in bush 2011

  • This was the cooling system, which Jack Savage had refined following the Owyhee test.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The bureau had experimented with artificial cooling at the Owyhee Dam in Idaho, the largest mass of concrete ever poured before Hoover Dam.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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  • James Cook named the Sandwich Islands after his benefactor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook reported that the native name for the Islands we now know as Hawai'i was Owyhee. The so-named county in SW Idaho is derived from Cook's term, and recalls 3 Hawaiian trappers who were lost in that region.

    Visuals are fairly representative of this part of Idaho.

    February 10, 2013