Within five years after Apostle Charles C Rich was called to establish a settlement in Bear Lake Valley in 1868, he looked to western Wyoming as a possible expansion of the Mormon community. By 1879, the Bear Lake Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints extended 90 miles to encompass the Salt River Valley, named Star Valley by Apostle Moses Thatcher in 1878. Cut off from the railroad at Montpelier, Idaho by a 50-mile route over Beaver Divide, Star Valley depended on supplies hauled over the Crow Creek Road. By 1889, more than 200 families lived there and endured the first severe winter since 1879, leaving animals starving and many families short of food. In March 1890, after men on snowshoes carrying flour could not meet the need and two snowshoers who had gone for help had not been heard from for more than two weeks, the snowbound settlers appealed to Stake President William Budge in Paris, Idaho. On 17 March 1890, a company of 29 men with 11 teams of horses left Star Valley to open the road through deep drifts, traveling up Crow Creek Canyon, then through Beaver and Preuss Canyons, until after days of shoveling through snow in a starving condition they reached the place they called Camp Giveout. The two missing snowshoers had alerted people in the Bear Lake region, and 18 men set out from that side to open the road. On the afternoon of 24 March, the two parties met below Snowslide Canyon and traveled to Montpelier the next day. After a social dance in Kimball’s Hall, the Star Valley men began the return trip early the next morning with 13 teams and sleighs loaded with provisions gathered from as far away as Preston, Idaho. Though many animals died, no human lives were lost because of the rescue effort, and the name Camp Giveout remained. By 1903, Giveout Station had been developed to its largest size by George Mower and Charles Harris of Montpelier as a transfer point where freighters shifted loads between sleighs and wagons in late fall and early spring. Its sheds, corrals, cabin, and cookhouse could serve 35 teams, but in 1908 a brush fire burned the post to the ground, it was never rebuilt, and by 1920 little remained beyond a large watering barrel and the memory of how the place got its name.