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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BMI_siege-site_Wisdom-MT.html
In front of you on the morning of August 9, 1877, you would have seen soldiers and Montana volunteers pass by as they began to deploy for the coming attack on the Nez Perce encampment just through the trees.
Following the army's surprise attack…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BME_natural-travel-corridor_Wisdom-MT.html
(Three panels make up this informational marker:)
Natural Travel Corridor
Clark's 1806 Route
Captain Clark and his party found great quantities of camas just beginning to bloom when they passed here on Sunday July 6, 1806. As they lef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BMD_battlefield-landscape_Wisdom-MT.html
From this vantage point you can visualize the general progress of the Battle of the Big Hole, but at a distance from the fear and chaos of its hand-to-hand combat. The landscape has changed little since the morning of August 9, 1877. This lush riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BMC_a-story-of-fires-to-be-continued_Wisdom-MT.html
"on each side of those glades the timber is small and great proportions of it killed by the fires" - William Clark, July 8 1806
Two hundred years ago William Clark saw a forest of young trees, many killed by fire. Very open stands of trees were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22HD_the-beginning-of-the-endless-missouri_Dillon-MT.html
"two miles below McNeal had exultingly stood with a foot of each side of this little rivulet and thanked his god that he had lived to bestride the mighty & heretofore deemed endless Missouri." - Meriwether Lewis, August 12, 1805
Hugh McNeal st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22HC_most-distant-fountain-of-the-mighty-missouri_Dillon-MT.html
"the road took us to the most distant fountain of the waters of the mighty Missouri in surch (sic) of which we have spent so many toilsome days and wristless (sic) nights." - Meriwether Lewis, August 12, 1805
What's in a name?
In 1921, his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22HA_from-route-to-road_Dillon-MT.html
This marker is made up of two panels.
Moving over the Mountains
The Shoshone Indians call this pass " Wee-yah-vee." For thousands of years, the Aqui-dika, or Salmoneater people of the Shoshone, and other tribes, crossed the Continental D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22H8_crossing-the-great-divide_Dillon-MT.html
High Point of the Journey
"thus far I had accomplished one of those great objects on which my mind has been unalterably fixed for many years.," wrote Meriwether Lewis, 456 days after setting out from St. Louis.
Lewis, George Drouillard,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22GR_sacajawea-memorial-area_Dillon-MT.html
There are many stories about the young Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
As time goes on, Sacajawea continues to inspire our admiration and curiosity. People delight in the stories of Sacajawea. These stories continue …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22GP_sacajawea-memorial-area_Dillon-MT.html
There were many heroes in this band of intrepid explorers, there was but one heroine. Denied in life and after that recognition which was due her, it is fitting that we meet here today to dedicate this spot in honor of that heroine." R.F. Hammat,…