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A vast mountain wilderness cut by the mile-deep Salmon River Canyon stretches across Idaho south and east of here. Travel through the Salmon River Mountains was always hard in the early days. An 1872 railroad survey found the Salmon River Canyon too expensive a route to build. Until a highway was finished down White Bird Hill in 1921, only some pack trails and a difficult wagon road crossed the rugged mountain barrier that separated north and south Idaho.
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