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Travelers Rest
When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came to the easter...
National Historic Landmark - Lolo Trail
The Lolo Trail across the Rocky Mountains between Idaho an...
Hat Rock
On October 19, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition's firs...
Dumas Brothel
The Dumas Brothel, located at 45 E. Mercury Street in Butt...
Yankton, South Dakota
Lewis and Clark landed at a Yankton Sioux village on the n...
Bonneville Dam
The Bonneville Dam, constructed in the Columbia River Gorg...
Arrow Rock, Missouri
The town of Arrow Rock took its name from a ninety feet hi...
Missouri Headwaters State Park: Three Forks
As the Corps of the Discovery continued up the Missouri Ri...
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Home to the graves of famous Western figures such as Wild ...
Jenny Lake
Jenny Lake is a popular tourist destination in Wyoming’s G...
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Travelers Rest
When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came to the eastern edge of the Bitterroot Mountains in present-day Montana, they walked in the footsteps laid down over thousands of years by countless individuals. Geographic realities defined travel routes in the pre-modern ...
National Historic Landmark - Lolo Trail
The Lolo Trail across the Rocky Mountains between Idaho and Montana provided the setting for the most difficult travels of the Corps of Discovery. After camping and resting for two days at Traveler's Rest, Lewis and Clark began their journey ...
Hat Rock
On October 19, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition's first leg of their canoe voyage down the Columbia River on the western side of the Rocky Mountains took them “S.W. 14 miles to a rock... resembling a hat.” Such a ...
Dumas Brothel
The Dumas Brothel, located at 45 E. Mercury Street in Butte, Montana, claims to be “America’s longest running house of prostitution.” In 1890, when the brothel first opened, Butte was a mining town, and several “parlor houses” and brothels lined ...
Yankton, South Dakota
Lewis and Clark landed at a Yankton Sioux village on the north bank of the Missouri River on August 28, 1804. Yankton Sioux first inhabited the area in the early eighteenth century, and the modern city of Yankton stands on ...
Bonneville Dam
The Bonneville Dam, constructed in the Columbia River Gorge, was completed in 1937. Construction took four years and was a New Deal public works project. President Franklin Roosevelt visited the site during construction and spoke at the dam’s dedication ceremony. ...
Arrow Rock, Missouri
The town of Arrow Rock took its name from a ninety feet high bluff overlooking the Missouri River. The site was a stop on a Native American trading trail, and Indians made weapons from the bluff’s flint for twelve thousand ...
Missouri Headwaters State Park: Three Forks
As the Corps of the Discovery continued up the Missouri River in July 1805, Sacajawea, the Lemhi Shoshone Indian who accompanied the expedition, began recognizing her people’s territory. Eager to meet the Shoshone, William Clark and four men separated from ...
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Home to the graves of famous Western figures such as Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and Sherriff Seth Bullock, Mount Moriah Cemetery is located in the nineteenth-century gold mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Prior to Mount Moriah’s establishment in ...
Jenny Lake
Jenny Lake is a popular tourist destination in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Thousands of years ago, a glacier carved a depression in the earth that eventually filled with water, forming the lake. Today, Jenny Lake is over 250 feet ...
