The Idaho-shaped monument reads:
Walters Ferry was from 1863 for fifty years an important link in the Boise-San Francisco stage route.
Oct. 25, 1865 James Harvey Cox ambushed and killed by Indians. Wife escapes by driving wagon to the ferry.
July 1868 Bigfoot, leader of a band of outlaw Indians, was killed by J. W. Wheeler in Reynolds Creek Canyon while waiting to rob the stage.
July 31, 1878 Wm. S. Hemingway, driving stage to Silver City, managed, after being fatally shot by Indians to drive to the ferry where he expired.
Erected 1941 By Sons and Daughters of Idaho Pioneers
Walters Ferry was from 1863 for fifty years an important link in the Boise-San Francisco stage route.
Oct. 25, 1865 James Harvey Cox ambushed and killed by Indians. Wife escapes by driving wagon to the ferry.
July 1868 Bigfoot, leader of a band of outlaw Indians, was killed by J. W. Wheeler in Reynolds Creek Canyon while waiting to rob the stage.
July 31, 1878 Wm. S. Hemingway, driving stage to Silver City, managed, after being fatally shot by Indians to drive to the ferry where he expired.
Erected 1941 By Sons and Daughters of Idaho Pioneers