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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BBV_the-soldiers-corral_Lolo-MT.html
You're standing in a replica of an entrenchment and breastworks similar to those built north of this point in July 1877. Notice the gap between the bottom and top logs. Rifle barrels could be slid through this opening while the logs provided soldi…
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/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
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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B97_journey-through-the-blackfoot_Bonner-West-Riverside-MT.html
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Many Cultures Forge Strong Communities
Welcome to Bonner and nearby communities, each built on the grit and dreams of self-made men and women. It you had walked into the Bonner …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B96_souvenirs-of-the-ice-age_Greenough-MT.html
Highway 200 near this rest area passes through one of the most spectacular ice-age landscapes in Montana. Glaciers advanced out to the Mission and Swan ranges, and the mountains in the Bob Marshall-Scapegoat wildernesses, forming an ice cap that n…