Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- It was the waterfalls that took Meriwether Lewis’s breath away in the summer of 1805. "I saw the spray arise above the plain like a column of smoke… It soon began to make a roaring...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- There are hundreds of pis'kun (buffalo jumps or bison kill sites) throughout North America. Pishkun means "deep blood kettle" or "gathering place" in Blackfoot language. Indigenous people gathered here roughly between 900-1500 A.D., before the...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- Don Fish, Blackfeet guide at Ulm Pishkun Visitor Center, showed us the skeleton of a prairie rattler. "They’re pretty slow moving, not very aggressive," he said. I was glad to remember his words as I...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- Called Black Eagle Spring by the Blackfeet Indians, these lovely clear-blue cold springs were re-discovered by Captain Meriwether Lewis in June 1805. He described it as "the largest fountain I ever beheld". Subsequent 1880s settlers...
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