Bahsahwahbee

Bahsahwahbee, in Spring Valley in eastern Nevada, is a grove of Rocky Mountain junipers sustained by springs and a shallow perched water table, making it the largest of three unusual valley-floor swamp cedar areas in the Great Basin. Its Shoshoni name means “sacred water valley,” and for Western Shoshone, Goshute, and other Newe communities it has long been a place for ceremony, food gathering, hunting, seasonal dances, and remembrance. Archaeological evidence in the valley reaches back at least 10,000 years. In the 19th century, the area became the site of massacres in 1859, 1863, and 1897. Today it remains culturally sacred and is protected through federal management and historic designation.

Baker, Nevada · United States