Editing Craigmont, Idaho (section)

==History==
The city is named for Colonel William Craig (1809–69),<ref name=sdcjr76>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xE9OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5fgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6681%2C3255416 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington |last=Ruark |first=Janice |title=Craigmont farm town serving fertile prairie |date=November 26, 1976 |page=3 }}</ref> a [[mountain man]] who had a [[Nez Perce tribe|Nez Perce]] wife. He settled at [[Lapwai, Idaho|Lapwai]] near his father-in-law Hin-mah-tute-ke-kaikt or James in 1840 when he gave up being a fur trapper due to the collapse of the market for beaver.<ref>Alvin M. Joseph, ''The Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971)</ref><ref name=apfcc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uC1mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zC8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1220,4649523|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Holbrook|first=R.L.|title=Area prepares ti observe Craig centennial|date=September 3, 1946|page=9}}</ref><ref name=cwcesci>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WShmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eS8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1306,2200764|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Holbrook|first=Robert L.|title=Col. William Craig, early settler of central Idaho |date=October 28, 1946|page=8}}</ref><ref name=csohtfy>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=la9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cS8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=2389,3509496 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Craig settled 124 years ago|date= November 21, 1964|page=9 }}</ref>

The [[Nez Perce people#Nez Perce Indian Reservation|Nez Perce Reservation]] was opened to white settlement {{Years or months ago|1895}} in 1895,<ref name=np61>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lYNfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3160,3901168|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Hamilton|first=Ladd|title=Heads were popping up all over the place|date=June 25, 1961|page=14}}</ref><ref name=unrul77>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qJxfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374,7048300|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Brammer|first=Rhonda|title=Unruly mobs dashed to grab land when reservation opened|date=July 24, 1977|page=6E}}</ref><ref name=npop31>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OZ5fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1072,1295368|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=3,000 took part in "sneak" when Nez Perce Reservation was opened|date=November 19, 1931|page=3}}</ref><ref name=21np>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cgpWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=veEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4420,8604920|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|location=Spokane, Washington|title=Nez Perce Reservation|date=December 11, 1921|page=5}}</ref> and a town named "Chicago," a mile west of the current Craigmont, was founded in 1898. In response to not getting their mail from the [[United States Post Office Department|post office]], it was renamed "Ilo" four years later, after Ilo Leggett, daughter of town founder and merchant W.O. Leggett. A fire burnt the town in 1904 and shortly thereafter the [[Camas Prairie Railroad]] bypassed the town and started a settlement, platted by Lewiston financier John P. Vollmer, on the northeast side of the railroad tracks, and he named it "Vollmer." Ilo responded and moved its community to the southwest side of the tracks, adjacent to Vollmer. After a decade-long feud and the consolidation of the school districts, the communities merged in 1920 to become Craigmont.<ref name=sdcjr76/><ref>Conley, Cort.  ''Idaho for the Curious''. [[Cambridge, Idaho|Cambridge]]: Backeddy, 1982, 623-626.  {{ISBN|0-9603566-3-0}}.</ref><ref name=craev>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JLpeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mjAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1044%2C763083|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Craigmont evolved after bitter feuding|last=Currier|first=Della|date=October 6, 1955|page=11}}</ref>