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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BBU_taking-cover_Lolo-MT.html
During the Civil War, soldiers often fought out in the open causing thousands of casualties. Because of this, the military decided to formally instruct and equip soldiers to entrench themselves. Soldiers and citizens here fully embraced this new s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BBJ_lewis-and-clark_Lolo-MT.html
Sept. 13th 1805.
Enroute to Pacific.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BBH_nez-perce-trail_Lolo-MT.html
On July 23, 1877, approximately 750 members of the Nez Perce Nation, with over 2,000 horses, crossed Lolo Pass to escape the pursuing U.S. Army. Leaving their homeland behind, they followed this trail across the Bitterroot Mountains in an attempt …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9Z_soldiers-as-naturalists_Lolo-MT.html
Lewis and Clark's "CORPS OF DISCOVERY" was the first major expedition launched by the United States to explore new lands with an emphasis on scientific inquiry. Lewis spent months being tutored in both physical and biological sciences in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9X_the-lolo-trail_Lolo-MT.html
The route that lies west of here, the Lolo Trail, was different from other east-west 19th century Americans trails. It did not witness a flood of cross-county migration. There were no covered wagons here.
Unmapped and shifting over time, it pene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9O_lewis-and-clark-on-lolo-creek_Lolo-MT.html
West bound, the trip up Lolo Creek was the start of a remarkably arduous and life-threatening part of the expedition's journey. Eastbound, the passage down Lolo Creek represented victory over one of the most formidable barriers to cross-country tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9N_fort-fizzle_Lolo-MT.html
(Three panels, presented left to right, form this marker.)
The Flight of the Nez Perce
In Search of Peace
In the mid-1870s the United States government attempted to force the Nez Perce (Nee-Mee-Poo or Nimiipu) people of Oregon, Ida…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9M_the-nez-perce-sikum_Lolo-MT.html
Sikum is the Nez Perce word for horse. The Nez Perce people were introduced to the horse in the 1730's. The word "appaloosa" was created by white settlers. The Nez Perce learned through selective breeding that they could produce a horse …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9L_cycles-and-circles_Lolo-MT.html
The landscape around you has changed since Lewis and Clark first saw it in September 1805. Back then it was the aboriginal territory of the Nez Perce and Salish people. This Native Americans had less impact on natural ecological processes than did…