En route from Red Lodge to Sheridan,WY we visited Pompey’s Pillar, a Louis and Clark national monument which is a 150 foot sandstone column located about 25 miles northeast of Billings, MT. On their return trip, Louis and Clark took separate routes for a month in order to cover more territory. Clark passed by this stone column on which Indians had carved petroglyphs. William Clark carved his name and the date and noted this in his journal. He named the column Pompey’s Pillar after the son of Sacagawea whom he had nicknamed Pomp. This carving is the only surviving physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Earlier (9/12/07), in Great Falls, MT, we visited the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, an excellent presentation of the expedition as they ported the Missouri’s falls in that area. Rather than the half day that Lewis and Clark had anticipated, it took a month for them to portage around the falls, a grueling task. We viewed two videos, one a Ken Burns production about the Lewis and Clark expedition and the other about the portage at Great Falls. The Interpretive Center and Pompey’s Pillar, plus Fort Clatsop at Astoria, OR, make three Lewis and Clark sites we’ve visited on this trip.
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En route from Red Lodge to Sheridan,WY we visited Pompey’s Pillar, a Louis and Clark national monument which is a 150 foot sandstone column located about 25 miles northeast of Billings, MT. On their return trip, Louis and Clark took separate routes for a month in order to cover more territory. Clark passed by this stone column on which Indians had carved petroglyphs. William Clark carved his name and the date and noted this in his journal. He named the column Pompey’s Pillar after the son of Sacagawea whom he had nicknamed Pomp. This carving is the only surviving physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Earlier (9/12/07), in Great Falls, MT, we visited the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, an excellent presentation of the expedition as they ported the Missouri’s falls in that area. Rather than the half day that Lewis and Clark had anticipated, it took a month for them to portage around the falls, a grueling task. We viewed two videos, one a Ken Burns production about the Lewis and Clark expedition and the other about the portage at Great Falls. The Interpretive Center and Pompey’s Pillar, plus Fort Clatsop at Astoria, OR, make three Lewis and Clark sites we’ve visited on this trip.
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