One year after his birth his family moved to the Owyhee Indian Reservation in Nevada and a few years later Elko, Nevada.
Owyhee is within the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and, since about half the reservation is located in southwestern Idaho, the Nevada portion of the reservation unofficially observes Mountain Time, as does nearby Mountain City (located 12 miles southeast of Owyhee and 2 miles southeast of the reservation boundary), even though they are legally in the Pacific Time Zone.
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Products from the company are labeled as "Owyhee" after the Owyhee River and Owyhee County, Idaho, that are located near the production plant.
In descending order of land area it is located in Ada, Elmore, Owyhee, and Canyon counties.