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The Lewis & Clark Trail

Mandan Villages to the Continental Divide
 

Portage route from Highland Cemetery to White Bear Island, Cascade   

County, Montana, June 23, 2000

[View: east to south.  47º 27’ 53” N - 111º 17’ 38” W]

 

[Clark]                                                                               June 25th Tuesday 1805

. . .it may be here worthy of remark that the Sales were hoised in the Canoes as

the men were drawing them and the wind was great relief to them being Sufficently

Strong to move the Canoes on the Trucks, this is Saleing on Dry land in every Sence

of the word. . .

 

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