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Crossing the Continental Divide

Colonel Gibbon dispatched Lieutenant Bradley and Captain Catlin with some of their men and a couple volunteers to locate the Nez Perce. Early on August 8, Gibbon and his men started over the Continental Divide. It required many laborious hours ...

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Gibbon at Ross Hole

 All right, Looking Glass, you are one of the chiefs! I have no wife, no children ...

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Camp at Ross Hole

On August 5, the Nez Perce traveled up Spring Gulch, across Low Saddle on the north side of Sula Peak, dropped down into Ross Hole and camped near present-day Indian Trees Campground before crossing the Continental Divide.

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MHHM-43 Ross' Hole

US 93, Mile Post 13, South of Sula

 

Alexander Ross, of the Hudson Bay Company, with 55 Indian and white trappers, 89 women and children and 392 horses, camped near here on March 12, 1824 en route from Spokane ...

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Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place

The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...

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Ross Farm (Hill Ross Farm)

This 19th-century farmhouse was home to two important figures in the abolitionist movement, Samuel Lapham Hill and Austin Ross.  Samuel Hill purchased the farm in 1841 from the Northampton Silk Company.  In 1842, Hill and others founded the Northampton ...

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Grosse Pointe High School

The construction of the Grosse Pointe High School in 1928 marked an important transition in the history of this area along the shores of Lake St. Clair. Grosse Pointe's move away from its farming community origins began after the Civil ...

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First Wagons Across the Sierras

The Stephens – Townsend – Murphy Party, with guidance from old Caleb Greenwood and Chief Truckee, brought their wagons up the Truckee River bed and on Nov. 25, 1844 191 days out of Council Bluffs, Iowa passed this point and ...

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At the Crossroads

Hub, Home, Heart

One year before Congress and the President arrived in their new capital city in 1800, Washington's Navy Yard opened at the foot of Eighth Street, two miles south of this sign. The yard soon became the city's ...

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Crossfire

Spain built the stone fort to your right, called San Juan de la Cruz, or “El Canuelo”, to create a deadly crossfire with the guns of Castillo San Felipe del Morro on the other side of the bay.

Just imagine ...

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