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National Historic Landmark - Lolo Trail

The Lolo Trail across the Rocky Mountains between Idaho and Montana provided the setting for the most difficult travels of the Corps of Discovery. After camping and resting for two days at Traveler's Rest, Lewis and Clark began their journey ...

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Devils Tower

Topped by a three hundred and fifty foot circular, vertical cliff and peaking 12,000 feet above the Bella Forche River in the Black Hills of Wyoming, Devils Tower rose out of the surrounding plains only fifty to sixty million years ...

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Dumas Brothel

The Dumas Brothel, located at 45 E. Mercury Street in Butte, Montana, claims to be “America’s longest running house of prostitution.” In 1890, when the brothel first opened, Butte was a mining town, and several “parlor houses” and brothels lined ...

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Yankton, South Dakota

Lewis and Clark landed at a Yankton Sioux village on the north bank of the Missouri River on August 28, 1804. Yankton Sioux first inhabited the area in the early eighteenth century, and the modern city of Yankton stands on ...

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Missouri Headwaters State Park: Three Forks

As the Corps of the Discovery continued up the Missouri River in July 1805, Sacajawea, the Lemhi Shoshone Indian who accompanied the expedition, began recognizing her people’s territory. Eager to meet the Shoshone, William Clark and four men separated from ...

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Spirit Mound

On August 24, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition came into view of a cast plain where a huge hill lay before them. The local Indians called the hill they were viewing “Spirit Mound.” The hill got its name through ...

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Clark's Dismal Nitch

Clark’s Dismal Nitch is a cove in the lower Columbia River where Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery sought shelter from dangerous weather conditions for six days in November of 1805. By the time of their arrival at the lower ...

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Netul Landing

After reaching the Pacific Ocean in November of 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition ventured back up the Colombia River to establish a more hospitable winter encampment. On December 7, 1805, the expedition traveled approximately three miles up the Netul ...

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Badlands National Park

The Badlands National Park is a 244,000 acre park that consists mainly of prairies. The park is home to numerous geological formations, especially buttes , steep, isolated hills, and it contains a large number of prehistoric fossils. The features of ...

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Aliceville Museum and Cultural Center

During World War II approximately 425,000 Axis soldiers were interned in 700 POW camps in the U.S. One of the largest camps was at Aliceville with a capacity for 6,000 prisoners. The camp employed more than 1,000 American military and ...

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