Canoe Mural, Lewis and Clark, Whitehall MT
N 45° 52.180 W 112° 05.763
12T E 414931 N 5080150
Whitehall Montana currently has 10 murals, capturing the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition which passed here in 1805-06.
Waymark Code: WM9ZQA
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2010
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This mural is on the front wall of the Rocky Mountain Bank and includes the following text:
"at 2 P.M. the canoe in which I was in was driven by a suden puff of wind under a log which projected over the water from the bank....after disingaging ourselves, the canoe was driven imediately under a drift which projected over and a little abov the Water, here the canoe was very near turning over..."
Capt. William Clark, July 12, 1806
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