*On 9/3/1805, the Corps of Discovery climbs over a pass and into the large Bitterroot River valley.*
*On 7/6/1806, on the return trip, Clark and his group travel from the Bitterroot River valley over a pass following a First Peoples trail with which Sakagawea was familiar.*
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| Hwy US-93 follows the Lost Trail Pass from the Salmon River valley to the Bitterroot River valley |
*On 7/6/1806, on the return trip, Clark and his group travel from the Bitterroot River valley over a pass following a First Peoples trail with which Sakagawea was familiar.*
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| Now we are starting on Gibbons Pass Road |
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| We are not even near the highest elevation (6,941 feet) and figured there was going to be more snow, so we literally backed out and went to Plan B (the highway and the Lost Trail Pass!) |
*On 9/4/1805, the Corps of Discovery encounter the Salish tribe in a large open valley. There seemed to be 400 people and 500 horses in the Salish encampment. The two groups exchanged gifts, food, and horses.*
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| Ross' Hole: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
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| The Bitterroot River and area of the Salish encampment |
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| Following the Bitterroot River |
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| Darby, MT: Sacajawea Rest Park (2017) |
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| 2017 casting of Sakagawea and Jean Baptiste, the same statue (2004, by Jim Demetro) is at Fort Clatsop in Oregon |
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| Close-up of the Sakagawea statue; Jean Baptiste is no longer a small infant! |
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| We tried to see the Frank Lloyd Wright Como Orchard cottages (1909), but the property was marked private |
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| The Lewis & Clark Gallery at Ravalli County Museum (in Hamilton, MT) was being renovated! |
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| In Ravalli County, the first neon sign was for a restaurant owned by a Chinese family |
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| The photography studio of Bertie Lord, who was also the first to record the history of the Bitterroot Valley |
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| Oncorhynchus clarki/Cutthroat Trout and Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi/Westslope Cutthroat Trout were described by Lewis and Clark |
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| Canis lupus/Grey Wolf was also described by Lewis & Clark |
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| An Albino Skunk was described as "colorless, but not odorless" (KSS) |
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| The old courthouse safe |
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| The area is considered the Valley of Three Trails: Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, the Nee-Me-Poo (Nez Perce) National Historic Trail and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail |
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| Ravalli County Museum in the former Ravalli County Courthouse (1900) |
*On 9/9/1805, the Corps of Discovery camped by a creek they named Travelers' Rest.*
*On 6/30/1806, on the return trip, the Corps of Discovery camped by Travelers' Rest Creek.*
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| The Travelers' Rest State Park Visitor Center had a museum; the Corps of Discovery expedition was "wearing" on the Army-issue shoes, and the members soon took to making and wearing leather moccasins (KSS) |
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| Another one of these reliefs; a closer look revealed it was created by Eugene L Daub in 2005; it is one of numbered copies of a mural relief that now is installed in the Senate Chamber of the Montana State Capitol |
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| The plain black hat of the enlisted men in the Corps would be decorated with a fur and feather for the dress uniform |
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| The captains' hats would differ in that Lewis's feather plume would be white for infantry, and Clark's red for artillery; also Lewis's eagle button would be silver, and Clark's gold |
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| Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross' Hole (1912, by C M Russell) is the mural we did not see at the Montana State Capitol |
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| Example of a Salish tipi |
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| Travelers' Rest Creek is now Lolo Creek |
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| The area of a fire hearth at the Corps of Discovery camp; this location is the only archaeologically-verified campsite from the expedition |
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| The positions of the facilities in the campsite follow the Army guidelines established by General Friedrich von Steuben during the American Revolution |
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| The three highest evergreen trees have been dated to have been here in 1805 |
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| Location of the latrines, found because of the presence of mercury, an ingredient in Dr Rush's Thunderclapper pills |
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| Proceed On: Kent with Lewis & Clark |
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| Now Tamiko has a turn |
*On 7/3/1806, on the return trip, the Corps of Discovery divided into two groups at Travelers' Rest. Meriwether Lewis led one group northwest to explore the Blackfoot River, and William Clark took the other group south along the Bitterroot River.*
~On 5/27-28/1999, Ada & Bert S were in Missoula, MT, and stayed at the Bel Aire Motel.~
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| Lewis followed what is now the Clark Fork River into Hellgate Canyon to reach the Blackfoot River |
~On 5/27-28/1999, Ada & Bert S were in Missoula, MT, and stayed at the Bel Aire Motel.~
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| The Bel Aire Motel is still in business |
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| St Francis Xavier Church (founded by the Jesuits in 1873, current church built in 1892, in Romanesque Revival style) |
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 26.
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