 Although these accounts tended to be exaggerated by participants, there is historical evidence of several small incidents that took place from 1860–1862.However, Almo's most famous historical event, the Almo Massacre of 1861, did not occur.In 1938, the Sons and Daughters of Idaho Pioneers paid for and erected a marker in remembrance of the massacre, in which a wagon train of nearly 300 pioneers was supposedly surrounded and slaughtered by Indians.