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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 9, 2018
Caption:
Homeward Bound on a Risky Shortcut pane; | Additional Description: Captions: (center)
Discover the Ancient Pathway For thousands of years, the Kootenai, Nez Perce, Blackfeet, Crow and Shoshone Indians traveled with dog travois that etched ruts deep into the Cokahlarishkit trail. Horses arrived in the 1700s, a train in 1913 and the Rogers Pass road to Great Falls opened in 1939. As you travel the "River of the Road to the Buffalo," reflect on the footsteps that marked this route before you. Most of the Salish tribe gathered each May and June to harvest nutritious camas roots in the Potomac Valley Basin. Bison hunting parties followed the trail to the plains about three times a year, sometimes joined by other allies for protection against the Blackfeet, known for sending horse-raiding parties deep into Salish territory.; (bottom left)
"I now ordered the horses saddled smoked a pip with these friendly people and at noon bid them adieu. They has cut the meat which I gave them last evening thin and exposed it in the sun to dry informing me that they should leave it in this neighborhood untill (sic) they returned as a store for their homeward journey...these affectionate people our guides betrayed very emmotion of unfeigned regret at seperating from us..." - Lewis, July 4, 1806; (bottom center) Lewis names the creek at this campsite "Seaman's: in honor of his Newfoundland retriever. "...we encamped on the lower side of the last creek (Seaman's Creek) just above it's entrance. here a war party had encamped about 2 months since and conceald their fires." - Lewis, July 5, 1806; (bottom right) "...our encampment on a large creek some little distance above it's mouth through q
beautifull plain on the border of which we passed the remains of 32 old lodges... great number of the burrowing squirrls in this parrie...saw some goats and deer...Curloos, bee martinis, woodpeckers, plover, robins, doves, ravens, hawks and variety of sparrows common to the plains..." - Lewis, July 6, 1806.
Submitted: September 9, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p444707
File Size: 3.525 Megabytes
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