Bad Rock Canyon
N 48° 23.123 W 114° 06.231
11U E 714415 N 5363188
Historic Marker along US 2
Waymark Code: WM4EAQ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2008
Views: 54
From the somewhat faded marker: "The Flathead River enters the valley through Bad Rock Canyon. Old-timers aver that a Blackfeet war party from the plains surged over the divide years ago seething with ambition to corral a choice assortment of cayuses and maybe a scalp or two from the unsuspecting Flatheads, who claimed this part of the country for range and bed grounds. They came with stealth and breezed out with haste and horses.
"This foray put the home folks on the prod. They lined out on the trail of those vanishing intruders, determined to reclaim their mounts and their honor.
"The departing Blackfeet anticipated some such caper so, cunning and agile as squirrels, they took to a projecting rib on the canyon wall and laid for the irate oncomers.
"It developed into quite a disturbance. Many a warrior joined his fathers in the Great Beyond that day. Sorrowful relatives thereafter referred to that ill-omened citadel as Bad Rock."
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Marker is along the Flathead River in Bad Rock Canyon.
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