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Excerpt from A Geological Reconnaissance: Across the Bitterroot Range and Clearwater Mountains in Montana and Idaho In spite of the forbidding aspect of these mountains, the earliest explorers of the Cordilleran region, Lewis and Clarke, led their expedition across them, choosing the Lolo trail from the Bitterroot Valley to the present site of Lewis ton, where they wintered. This was in 1805. For many decades after this the wild solitudes remained the exclusive hunting ground of the Nez Perce Indians; but in 1860 the gold fields of Elk City and Oro Fino were discovered, and in that year began the gradual settlement of the Bitterroot Valley on the east and the lower Clearwater country on the west. An army of gold seekers invaded the Clearwater Mountains, but, failing to find gold placer. outside of the old camps, soon aban doued the search. The two Indian trails connecting Idaho with Montana, the Lolo and the Nez Perce, Which were much used at first. Gradually became less frequented. The Indians and the few trappers who wintered in the snowy forests were the only occupents of these mountains, which, on account of their isolation, formed one of the finest game preserves of the West, Where the moose, the elk, and the bear roamed in great numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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