Bonners Ferry, Idaho

Bonners Ferry is a city in and the county seat of Boundary County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,543 at the 2010 census.

History

When gold was discovered in the East Kootenays of British Columbia in 1863, thousands of prospectors from all over the West surged northward over a route that became known as the Wildhorse Trail. Edwin Bonner, a merchant from Walla Walla, Washington, established a ferry in 1864 where the trail crossed the broad Kootenai River. In 1875, Richard Fry, and his Sinixt wife, Justine Su-steel Fry, leased the business, but the location retained the name of the original founder and later became the town of Bonners Ferry.

Before the gold rush, only a few visitors had come to the region; one of the first was explorer David Thompson, a cartographer for the North West Company. Thompson and four fellow fur traders arrived in 1808 to trade with the Lower Kootenais. Exhausted and famished, the local natives gave Thompson's party dried fish and moss bread. Thompson returned the next year and established a trading post on Lake Pend Oreille. He was followed in 1846 by Jesuit Priest Father DeSmet, a missionary to the Kootenai Tribe.

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Community Sports Report: Orofino-Pierce prevails in Camas Prairie Trap...

The Lewiston Tribune 20 Mar 2025
The deadline is 7 p.m. Monday. TRAPSHOOT ... OPEN DIVISION ... Maries 711.00; Malden-Pine 688.00; Davenport 675.25; Endicott 670.00; Bonners Ferry 665.00; Indian Valley 655.00; Walla Walla 551.00; Baker 551.00. Men’s All-Star Team — 6 ... Bonners Ferry 68.00 — 24 ... .
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Marshal’s Service agents arrest Idaho fugitive convicted of possessing bombs

The Spokesman-Review 14 Mar 2025
Marshal’s Service agents arrested a Bonner’s Ferry man who had been in hiding since last year when he was convicted of possessing bombs ... According to reports in the Bonners Ferry Herald ...
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COMMUNITY SPORTS REPORT

The Lewiston Tribune 12 Mar 2025
Maries 643.00; Troy-Deary 642.56; White Bird 641.00; Malden-Pine-617.00; Endicott 610.00; Davenport 607.25; Bonners Ferry 597.00; Indian Valley 588.00; Walla Walla 551.00; Baker 530.00 ... Bonners Ferry 67.00 — 23.
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High seeds, high hopes for State

Moscow-Pullman Daily News 06 Mar 2025
Their losses this season have come to reigning 4A state champion Bonners Ferry, larger-division foes Coeur d’Alene and Lake City of Coeur d’Alene, and to Sandpoint, which Lewiston defeated by double-digit margins in three of four meetings ... .
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