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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22G4_meriwether-lewis-makes-contact_Salmon-ID.html
Lewis's advance party entered the valley below in search of the Lemhi Shoshone, whose horses the Expedition would need to cross the mountains. The first Indians Lewis saw fled before he could reach them, but he soon came upon three women. When Lew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22G2_william-clarks-scouting-mission_Salmon-ID.html
Was the Salmon River as treacherous as Cameahwait, the Lemhi Shoshone chief, had said? Clark and eleven men had come to find out. Finding a navigable, westward-flowing river was the major objective of the Expedition at this time.
Clark stayed in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FW_rheumatism-and-recreation_Salmon-ID.html
Pioneer miner and rancher Frank B. Sharkey, who settled near this site in the 1870s, praised this sprig as he soaked in its soothing waters. Around 1890 Eleihu Barnes erected as shanty over the springs to keep the cows out.
In the late 1920s To…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FV_lewis-and-clark-unfurling-the-flag_Salmon-ID.html
The Corps of Discovery were the first U.S. citizens to reach the Northwest by land, strengthening the American claim established in 1792 when mariner Robert Gray discovered the Columbia River.
When Lewis unfurled the Stars and Stripes, he made t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FG_leaving-the-lemhi-valley_Tendoy-ID.html
The salmon runs that fed the Lemhi Shoshone in summer had almost ended: it was time to leave for the fall buffalo hunt on the Missouri River. Cameaghwait and his people would hunt with their allies, the Montana Salish, for mutual defense against e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FF_lewis-and-clark-trading-for-horses_Tendoy-ID.html
When Lewis learned that Clark had found the Salmon River un-navigable, buying more horses became a top priority. He'd already bought fifteen, but he needed twice that many to carry the Expedition's baggage.
But enemy raiders had stolen many Lemh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FE_tendoy-chief-of-the-lemhi-shoshone_Tendoy-ID.html
This community is named for a great man: Tendoy, chief of the Lemhi Shoshone from 1863 to 1907. During the Nez Perce , Bannock and Sheepeater troubles of the 1870s, Tendoy preserved the peace in Lemhi County. In gratitude, prominent local settlers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FC_sacajawea-comes-home_Salmon-ID.html
Lewis and Clark gave Sacajawea a miracle: a return home for the first since her kidnapping several years earlier. She gave them as much: a Lemhi Shoshone interpreter and an advocate for the Expedition in buying Lemhi horses.
It was a bitterswee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22FA_the-withington-caldera_Salmon-ID.html
About 50 million years ago, this was one of the most violent landscapes on Earth. A sub-surface mass of molten rock rose and subsided in cycles, spewing gas, mineral fragments and ash in explosions hundreds of times more powerful that an atomic bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22EG_before-the-roads_Leadore-ID.html
This marker consists of three panels: one map and two historical. Before the Roads
Shoshone Homeland
Native Americans were the first to travel over this rugged country. Most of the year they spent traveling from place to place to find …