Lewis and Clark - Ross Hole
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N 45° 50.176 W 113° 58.763
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Group of Lewis and Clark history signs at Sula on U.S. Hwy. 93.
Waymark Code: WMFGM1
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2012
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A group of five interpretive signs on Ross Hole at Sula on U.S. Hwy. 93 about 12 miles north of Lost Trail Pass. Four of the signs deal with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in this area. One of the signs is about Ross Hole and is titled “The Great Clearing.”
Text of Sign: “Our people were camped in a kind of prairie along the Bitterroot River, a few miles upstream from the Medicine Tree. The place is called Ross’ Hole now; the Indians then called it K”tit Pupam.” - Pierre Pichette, Salish Tribal Elder (1953)
This traditional place -- whose Salish language name means ‘big clear area’ or ‘great clearing’ was used by countless generations of Indian people to gather chokecherries and to pasture their horses on the abundant grass. From here, the Salish could travel south to the Salmon River country to fish for salmon, or travel east to the open plains, to hunt buffalo.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was welcomed by a large band of Salish Indians who were camped in this open valley on September 4, 1805. Captain Clark noted that there were over 30 lodges, 400 people and at least 500 horses. Clark also wrote: “those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over out shoulders & smoked in the pipes of peace . . .”
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Date Waymark Created: 10/17/2012
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