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sign sits beside ID HWY 28 just north of Tendoy. It marks the general
area where Lewis's party found the first Shoshone camp. He wrote:
"...on our arrival at their encampmen[t] on the river in a handsome
level and fertile bottom at the distance of 4 Ms. from where we had
first met them they introduced us to a londge [sp] made of willow
brush and an old leather lodge which had been prepared for our reception...."
The Shoshone, attacked by an enemy tribe, in the spring, had lost
all tepees as well as some people and horses. Hence the brush lodges
which they normally only use for hunting. Top right, the view east
toward the Lemhi River. Clark named it the "East Fork of Lewis's
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