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The
Corps arrived at one of the Salish villages near the confluence of
Camp Creek and "East Fork Clark's River, now East Fork Bitterroot
River. They had thrashed through heavy thick forest and brush, down
the north side of Lost Trail Pass. (The pass was named long after
Lewis and Clark passed through). Then the Corps followed Camp Creek,
north, to its meeting with the river. The image, left, looks east,
across the area where the Corps met the Salish.
John Ordway surmised: "they appear to us as though they had an
Impedement in their Speech or brogue on their tongue. we think perhaps
that they are the welch Indians, & C." Adding to the myth
of Welch/Indians. |
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