Editing Bear Lake County, Idaho (section)

==History==
Peg-Leg Smith established a trading post on the [[Oregon Trail]] from 1848 to 1850 near [[Dingle, Idaho|Dingle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.idaho.gov/Reference%20Series/1042.pdf|title=Archived copy |access-date=August 31, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172120/http://www.history.idaho.gov/Reference%20Series/1042.pdf|archive-date=July 7, 2010}} THOMAS L. (PEG-LEG) SMITH'S HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY FUR TRADE OPERATIONS</ref>

The first settlement in the Bear Lake Valley was Paris, settled by [[Mormon]] pioneers led by [[Charles C. Rich|Charles Rich]] on September 26, 1863;<ref name=lmtst/> thirty families comprised the original settlement. In the spring of 1864, [[Montpelier, Idaho|Montpelier]] was settled on the other side of the valley on the Oregon Trail. Bear Lake County was established in 1875,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.id.us/aboutidaho/county/bearlake.html|publisher=State of Idaho|title=Bear Lake County|access-date=December 3, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104090602/http://www.state.id.us/aboutidaho/county/bearlake.html|archive-date=January 4, 2013}}</ref> and the railroad was extended through Montpelier in 1892.