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Category : Bird-Truax Trail (Idaho and Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Gene Eastman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780893015091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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A history of the management of the Lolo Trail, a ancient travel route used by American Indians and well as Lewis and Clark in crossing the Bitterroot Range. Based on years of field and archival research.

Author: Archie Satterfield
Publisher: Dissertation.com
ISBN: 9780595088881
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led a group of men across some of North America's most magnificent scenery to find "the direct water communication from sea to sea". In words and many illustrations, this book tells that story of the great adventure.

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Publisher:
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Category : Bird-Truax Trail (Idaho and Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Author: Ralph S. Space
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Category : Bird-Truax Trail (Idaho and Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Kira Gale
Publisher: River Junction Press LLC
ISBN: 0964931524
Category : Travel guides
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Author: Steve F. Russell
Publisher: Historic Trails Press, Ames, Iowa
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 77

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During September 1-4, 1805, the Corps of Discovery under the command of Lewis and Clark bushwacked their way northward over the dividing ridge between the waters of what they called Lewis' River on the south and Clark's River on the north. They began on the Salmon River in Idaho and their destination was the Bitterroot River in Montana. They were not following an established Indian trail because they chose to go due north over the most direct route possible. The established Indian trail, at that time, looped eastward through the Big Hole before going northward up Trail Creek, over Gibbons Pass, and then into the Bitterroot Valley. The route of the Corps of Discovery over Lost Trail Pass is, to repeat an often used phrase, "a puzzle wrapped in a mystery, shrouded by an enigma." It remains a major challenge to the Lewis and Clark trail community to determine their route for September 1-4, 1805 and their September 2nd and 3rd camping sites. This paper reports on a technique the author has developed, using topography and computer analysis techniques, that can be applied to the Lost Trail route. For the past 12 years, I have been doing research on the Lolo Trail from Lolo, Montana to Weippe, Idaho. This work is nearing completion and will result in the accurate location and documentation of the trails within the Lolo Trail System: the Northern Nez Perces Trail, the Bird-Truax Trail, and the Lewis and Clark route. The research techniques developed for the Lolo Trail were applied to the Lost Trail route using modern map data and the expedition*s journal narratives and maps. While the Lolo Trail research results were validated by cross-checking with many other historical sources, as well as ground truthing, no known equivalent resources exist for the Lost Trail route. The party "bushwhacked" their way over the pass and did not follow an established "roade." Without the remnants of a well-travelled Indian trail, we are left with only their journal records and the topography to be our guide.

Author: Ralph S. Space
Publisher:
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Category : Bird-Truax Trail (Idaho and Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045660
Category : Dutch oven cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Wallace G. Lewis
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607320274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Although it was 1806 when Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis after their journey across the country, it was not until 1905 that they were celebrated as national heroes. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark examines how public attitudes toward their explorations and the means of commemorating them have changed, from the production of the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905 to the establishment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in 1978 and the celebrations of the expedition's bicentennial from 2003 through 2007. The first significant stirrings of national public interest in Lewis and Clark coincided with the beginning of a nationwide fascination with transcontinental automobile touring. Americans began to reconnect with the past and interact with the history of Western expansion by becoming a new breed of "frontier explorer" via their cars. As a result, early emphasis on local plaques and monuments yielded to pageants, reenactments, and, ultimately, attempts to retrace the route, promoting conservation and recreation along its length. Wallace G. Lewis details the ingenuity that inspired the establishment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, opening a window to how America reimagines, recreates, and remembers its own past. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark will appeal to both scholarly and armchair historians interested in the Western frontier as experienced by both Lewis and Clark and those retracing their steps today.