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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 12, 2022
Caption: Into Blackfeet Country Marker, detail at the bottom left.
Additional Description: John Ford Chymer -- The Lewis Crossing

"river of the road to buffaloe"
At Travelers' Rest Nez Perce guides told Lewis the easiest way back to the falls of the Missouri was up a river they called Cokahlarishkit, of the river of the road to buffaloe".
On July 3, 1806 crossing the Clark Fork River, Lewis noted, "the raft sunk and I was drawn off ... by a bush and swam on shoe ...". Their return adventure continued onward!
Submitted: April 7, 2023, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p715864
File Size: 1.297 Megabytes

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