William Craig's Homestead - National Parks Gallery

When the American Fur Company went out of business in 1840, William Craig settled in the Lapwai Valley. He met a Nez Perce headman known as Thunder Eyes and fell in love with his daughter and married her. William Craig's Donation Land Claim is the first place in Idaho where a white settle obtained title to a farm through the Oregon Donation Land Act. William Craig was the only white person to have official permission from the Nez Perce to live on the reservation.