In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark (40 page)

Lewis and Clark 1905 Portland exposition (full title: Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair): commercial focus of,
16
,
98
; historical significance of,
16
,
19
; impact on Portland,
17
; official emblem,
15
; official publication,
18
; promotional transcontinental auto race,
92
; public interest in expedition stimulated by,
5
,
13
,
17
; Sacagawea's role,
23–25
; Sacagawea's statue,
23
,
24
,
25
; Seaside annual festival,
109

Lewis and Clark 140th anniversary,
125

Lewis and Clark 125th anniversary,
98

Lewis and Clark River (former Netul),
68
,
109

Lewis and Clark sesquicentennial,
xii
, automobile caravan and air tour,
125
; commemoration styles,
5
; community activities,
109
; compared to bicentennial,
6
; events,
124–126
; Fort Clatsop replica,
109–111
,
111
; outdoor pageants,
113
,
115–124
,
160
; in Pacific Northwest,
126–127
; preparations for,
108–110
; special
book,
111–112
.
See also individual states by name

Lewis and Clark sesquicentennial pageants: Dillon (Montana),
121–123
,
122
,
123
; Salmon (Idaho),
123–124
; Three Forks (Montana),
116–121
,
124

Lewis and Clark Trail: A Proposal for Development
(Bureau of Outdoor Recreation),
132

Lewis and Clark Trail Advisory Committee (Oregon),
147

Lewis and Clark trail and route,
41
,
112
,
155
; archeological sites,
144
; auto caravan along,
125
; and auto tourism,
5
,
77–78
; camp sites,
6
,
86
; commemorating,
11
,
33
,
42
,
78
; and Continental Divide,
54
; Darling's resources, recreation, and trail “ribbon” proposal,
130
; DeVoto follows route,
110
; Duncan drives route,
157
; following by canoe,
136–137
; Gray drives route,
101–104
; highways following,
91
,
95–99
,
144
; historical significance,
90
,
131
; interpretive sites,
153
; locating and tracing route (modern day),
78
,
86
,
88–89
; on Lochsa River,
105
; and Lolo Motorway,
100
,
100–104
; marking highways along,
141–143
; National Historic Trail,
6–7
,
78
,
127
,
155
; National Trails System,
152–154
; obliterated by water,
112–113
,
116
,
125
,
127
,
130
,
140
; pageants about,
113
,
116–117
; preserving,
6
; public attitudes toward,
3
,
91
; Satterfield drives part of route,
156–157
; sesquicentennial,
125
; site destruction or alteration,
134
; stimulating public interest in,
151
; study of,
149
,
151–157
; veneration of,
5
; Wheeler's mapping,
79–86

Lewis and Clark Trail Committee (Missouri),
151

Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. (1970),
151
,
159

Lewis and Clark trail markers.
See
Auto tourism

Lewis-Clark Highway (U.S. 12),
102
,
104
,
124
,
132

Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens (Lewiston, Idaho),
112

Lewis-Clark State College (Lewiston, Idaho),
112

Lewis, Meriwether,
44
,
85
; eating reconstituted soup,
83–84
; at Gates of the Mountains,
59
; goes ahead to search for Shoshone,
61–62
; Great Falls of the Missouri description,
55–57
; and “Great Man” view of history,
79
; gunshot wound,
75
; historical significance,
1
; iron boat,
58
; Marias River fracas,
160
; Marias River marker,
30
; monuments to,
27–28
,
34
,
35
,
38
,
39
,
41
; North Dakota upland description by,
52
; portrayed by Hollywood,
107–108
; portrayed in pageant,
119–121
; represented in Portland exposition emblem,
15
; on Sacagawea,
20–21
; statue at Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
18
; takes separate route east from Traveler's Rest,
73–74
; Touchet River description,
70
; travel down Ohio River,
5
,
43
; White Cliffs description,
54
,
55

“Lewis N. Clark,”
11

Lewis, Peirce,
164–165

Lewiston, Idaho: Chamber of Commerce,
98
; expedition at Snake-Clearwater river confluence,
65
,
70–71
,
102
,
112
; Lewis and Clark Hotel
112
,
116
; Lewis-Clark Highway,
98–99
,
105
,
126
; local names commemorating Lewis and Clark,
112
; railroad survey,
81
; scalp dance,
116
; sesquicentennial events,
124–126
; Wheeler expedition access to Lolo Trail,
84

Lewistown (Montana),
104

Lexington (Missouri),
44

Life Magazine
,
150

Lilenthal, Edward T.,
162

Lincoln Highway,
93–94

Lincoln Highway Association,
93–94

Lincoln (Montana),
74

Lincoln Park (San Francisco),
93

Lion, Henry,
37

Lisa, Manuel.
See
Fort Manuel Lisa

Little Big Horn, Battle of,
78

Little Goose Dam,
65

Little Missouri River,
52
,
74

Little Muddy Creek,
52

Little Rocky Mountains,
54

Livingston (Montana),
36
,
52
,
72
,
135
,
157

Lochsa River and canyon: Lewis and Clark expedition problems with,
64
,
82
; Lewis-Clark Highway along,
102–104
,
105
,
126
; and Wheeler expedition,
83

Lolo country,
60

Lolo Creek (“Travelers Rest Creek”),
63–64
,
71
,
81
; Wheeler expedition,
84

Lolo Hot Springs (also Boyle's Hot Springs),
64
,
71
,
81–82

Lolo (Montana),
63
,
104
,
123
,
167

Lolo Motorway (Forest Road 500): auto tourists retracing route,
100
,
103
; construction of,
99–100
; Gray on,
101–102
; and Lolo Trail,
87
,
100
; rough forest road,
168
; Snyder on,
103
; view from,
100

Lolo National Forest,
87

Lolo Pass: DAR plaque,
86
; expedition descent from,
104
; and Forest Road 500,
99
; Lewis-Clark Highway,
64
,
103
,
105
,
126
; location on Lolo Trail,
80
; Mullan on,
80
; Satterfield account,
157
; sesquicentennial activities,
123
; wagon road,
87

Lolo Pass Interpretive Center,
167

Lolo Trail: Camp Choppunish delay,
85
; crossing (westward),
70
; DAR plaque on,
86
; expedition descent from,
104
; hot springs on expedition return,
81
; Indian Post Office,
87
; and Lewis-Clark Highway,
126
; Lolo Motorway route,
87
,
100
,
100
; Nez Perce used,
80
; Peebles locating Lewis and Clark route,
88
; Shoshone guide (Old Toby),
64
; snow on,
71
; from Traveler's Rest,
63
; wagon road,
87
; from Wendover Ridge,
64

Loma (Montana),
55
,
99

Long Beach (Washington),
68

Long Camp (Camp Choppunish): DeCamp photograph of site,
84–85
; expedition at
70–71
,
72
,
104
; Wheeler expedition,
84

Long Narrows (on the Columbia River),
66–67

Longview (Washington),
68

Lookout Pass,
80

Lopez, Charles,
18

Lost Colony.
See
Roanoke

Lost Trail Pass,
62
,
63
,
88

Louisiana Purchase,
119
,
145

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904),
16–18
,
99
,
114

Lowell (Idaho),
104

Lower Brulé Indian Reservation (South Dakota),
48

Lower Granite Dam,
65

Macey (Nebraska),
47

MacFarlane, Robert,
111

MacGilvra, E. E. “Boo,”
146
,
152

MacKaye, Percy,
114–115

MacMurray, Fred,
107

Madison River,
59
,
112

Magnuson, Warren,
125–126

Maine, state of,
17
,
94

Malmstrom Air Force Base (near Great Falls, Montana),
58

Mandan (Native American tribe),
2
,
40
,
50
,
53

Mandan (North Dakota),
50
,
98

Mandan Villages (North Dakota),
44
,
47
,
50–51
,
120
,
176(n20)

Manifest Destiny,
xii
,
2
,
8
,
19
,
23

Mansfield, Mike,
152

Marias camp,
55

Marias River,
30
,
55
,
74
,
97
; fracas on,
160

Marthasville (Missouri),
44

Matthews, Dr. Washington,
23

Maudlin, Billy,
113

Maudlin, Clark, and his wife,
113
,
116–117

McBeth, Sally,
21–22
,
172(n19)

McCall, Laura,
21

McClellan Ferry,
54

McLean County Historical Society (North Dakota),
157

McNary Dam,
141

Meeker, Ezra,
77–78
; journeys over Oregon Trail by wagon, automobile, and aircraft,
176(n1)

Memaloose Island,
85

Memorials,
xi–xii
,
26
,
36–37
; markers,
87
,
98
,
113
,
125
,
165
; plaques,
25
,
27
,
27
,
36
,
115
,
149

Memory: and history,
3–4
; Lewis and Clark in public memory,
7
,
10–11
,
29
; national memory,
6
; vernacular,
162

Midway Park (Charlottesville, Virginia),
28

Miles City (Montana),
73

Milk River,
53

Miller, Jack R.,
130
,
150

Minataree.
See
Hidatsa

Minot (North Dakota),
96

Mishell, Jenny,
33

Mississippi River,
12–13
,
114
; change in bed,
135–136

Mississippi River Trail,
149

Missoula Automobile Dealers Association,
123

Missoula (Montana): expedition back to Traveler's Rest,
73
; and expedition route,
102
; Kiwanis Club,
122
; sesquicentennial pageants and activities,
117–118
,
122
,
125
,
160
; stagecoach to Lolo Hot Springs,
82
; State Highway
200
,
54
,
104
,
105
; Traveler's Rest south of,
123
; and Van Arsdol survey,
81
; wagon road from Pierce (Idaho),
87

Missouri Basin, flooding,
137

Missouri Breaks,
54

Missouri Headwaters State Park,
112–113
,
159–160

Missouri Historical Expedition (1925),
30

Missouri River,
12
,
22
,
48
,
54
,
71
; archeological sites,
144
; Big Bend of,
48
; Big Falls of,
56
; bottomland,
132–133
,
134
; confluence with Yellowstone,
52
,
73
; course of in Missouri,
44
; determining main stem at the Marias confluence,
55
; environmental concerns and preservation projects,
140
,
155–156
; expedition camp sites on,
6
; floods and changes,
135–137
; Fort Benton,
103
; Fort Mandan,
51
,
120
; fur trade on,
33
; Gates of the Mountains,
58–59
,
59
; and Gray's journey,
101–102
; Great Falls of,
51
,
56
,
56–57
,
74
,
97
; headwaters of,
21
,
37
,
58–60
,
60
,
113
,
119–121
; and highways,
99
,
125
; Medicine River mouth,
58
; at Mobridge (South Dakota),
26
,
96
,
104
; mouth of,
126
; pesticides,
182(n2)
; portage to Columbia River,
43
; as recreation area,
150
,
152
,
155–156
,
166–167
,
184(n43)
; reservoirs,
111–112
; rivers entering in Dakotas,
50
; road access,
142–143
; upper Missouri region,
86
; Upper Missouri Wild and Scenic River,
54
,
55
; vegetation,
44–46
; White Bear Islands,
58
; White Cliffs,
55
,
80