Deadwood

With the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty, the US Government gave ownership of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota to the Lakota Sioux nation. However, when two prospectors who were part of Custer's expedition to the ...

Blackbird Hill

On August 11, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped at the foot of a hill on the west side of the Missouri River near present day Macy, Nebraska. The two leaders and ten corpsmen climbed the hill to visit ...

Tower Falls

Tower Falls is a 132 foot waterfall located in the Northwest portion of Yellowstone National Park. Samuel Hauser, a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition that explored northwest Wyoming, named the waterfall in 1870. Hauser was not the first person to ...

Signal Mountain

Signal Mountain, located in Grand Teton National Park, reaches a height of 7,720 feet. It was on Signal Mountain in 1878 that renowned photographer William Henry Jackson took the earliest known photographs of the Teton Range.

In 1891, Robert Ray ...

Packer Meadows

Packer Meadows is located on the Lolo Trail near the present day Idaho and Montana border. The Nez Perce tribe utilized the Lolo Trail in order to pass through the Bitterroot Mountains and reach buffalo country. The Lewis and Clark ...

Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument

On June 26, 1876, troopers of the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer engaged in fierce fighting with Indians of the Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes near the Little Big Horn River in Montana. ...

Ecola State Park

Named after the Chinook word for “whale,” Ecola State Park is located on the Pacific Coast of Oregon. During the winter of 1805-06 the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery camped at nearby Fort Clatsop. On January 6, 1806, William ...

Colter Bay

Named after the explorer John Colter who passed through the Jackson Lake area in 1807-08, Colter Bay is a small body of water located on the eastern side of the much larger Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Colter ...

Seventh Cavalry Memorial

The Seventh Cavalry Memorial is part of a larger historic site known as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The site as a whole pays homage to some of the most iconic figures in the history of the American West, ...

Midway Geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring

The Midway Geyser Basin is located in Yellowstone National Park, and is part of the largest collection of geysers in the world. Midway features the Excelsior Geyser, which discharges more than 4,000 gallons of water per minute, as well as ...