Army forced the Shoshone to return to the Fort Hall Reservation. In the late 1870s Pocatello granted a right-of-way to Jay Gould to extend the Utah and Northern Railway across the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. The extension of the railroad was motivated by the increasing flood of settlers into the Idaho Territory following the discovery of gold. The city of Pocatello, Idaho, founded along the railroad during this time, is named after him. After his death in 1884, Pocatello's body was interred in a deep spring in Idaho along with his clothing, guns, knives, and hunting equipment. Eighteen horses were also slaughtered and put into the spring on top of his body. Name In 1918, John E. Rees published a list of Idaho place names called Idaho Nomenclature. His derivation of Pokatello included po "road," ka "not," and tello "to follow," and Rees offered the meaning "he does not follow the road," referring to the chief's "stealthy habits and thieving raids." An earlier reference to Pocataro occurred in 1859, when F. W. Lander, Superintendent of the U.S. Overland Wagon Road, met Chief Pocatello and arranged his release from U.S. Army custody. Linguist Sven Liljeblad believed that Lander's encounter with Chief Pocatello was the first reference to the name. Liljeblad refuted John Rees' syllabic derivation of the name, reasoning that Rees had simply connected unrelated Shoshoni roots. Liljeblad concluded that Pocatello was not even a Shoshoni word. Chief Pocatello's daughter, Jeanette Lewis, confirmed that the name had no meaning in the Shoshoni language, and that the chief referred to himself as Tondzaosha, meaning "buffalo robe." In popular culture Pocatello appears in Sid Meier's Civilization V as the playable leader of the Shoshone Civilization. References External links UtahHistoryToGo: Chief Pocatello Website of the descendants and family of Chief Pocatello 1815 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Native Americans American Latter Day Saints Converts to Mormonism Mormonism and Native Americans Native American history of Idaho Native American leaders People from Utah People of pre-statehood Idaho Northern Shoshone people