Girdles are used for cooking scones, bannocks, pancakes and oatcakes. This typically included food such as colcannon, sowans, dumplings, barmbrack or bannocks. The town is best known for bannocks, a dry fruit cake. The Bannocks and Arapahos at the time were adversaries, often at war with each other. Butchered by Bannocks - An Awful Massacre at Jackson's Hole. Ultimately, however, unrest among some Bannocks, Nez Perces, and the mission led to violence. An unusually talented White scout, Stanton G. Fisher, and the Bannocks explored ahead. After his death, Chief Egan led the Bannocks. A group of Bannocks entered the park in 1878, alarming park Superintendent Philetus Norris. A little later, near Cora, Wyoming, six more Bannocks were detained.