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West 700 ID 83720-0093 Boise, was Sacajawea's brother. Sacajawea had returned to her IDAHO SCENIC BYWAYS visitors to the area. Today, walls of the canyon are like a homeland, and her presence greatly aided the Corps in museum, where pictographs and petroglyphs display Northwest Passage Scenic Byway – In 1803, President receiving the assistance they needed to continue their evidence of the Indians’ early settlements. Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William journey to the Pacic Ocean. http://www.idahobyways.gov/byways/hells-canyon.aspx Clark to nd the Northwest Passage; the link between the Missouri River and the Columbia River through the unex- With an elder Lemhi-Shoshone guide and his son, the COMMEMORATIVE SCULPTURES plored Rocky Mountains. This 202-mile byway, stretching Corps made their way through the Bitterroot Valley of across north-central Idaho, follows the explorers' route Hospitality of Nez Perce Montana and into the Bitterroot mountains, emerging through the ancestral homeland of the Nez Perce people. Boise, 304 N 8th St. Lewiston, along 8th Street once again into Idaho near Lolo Pass. The snowy www.idahobyways.gov/byways/northwest-passage.aspx passage through the Bitterroots tried the stamina of the The statue depicts Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Nez Perce tribal chief: Twisted Hair. At their feet, Twisted expedition members and they faced near starvation Sacajawea Historic Byway – Sacajawea, an "Agaidika" Hair's young son Lawyer is enthralled by the elements before encountering Nez Perce Indians on the Weippe Shoshone woman born around 1788, is known around the of trade. Sculpture by Doug Hyde, a descendant of the Prairie. The Nez Perce befriended and fed the Corps, world as a trusted and valuable member of the famed Nez Perce Tribe. and at Canoe Camp near Orono, they assisted in Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery. A lesser-known fact; making the dugouts that the Corps would use to however, is her historical tie to Idaho's Lemhi Valley, where Sacajawea Monument continue their journey down the Clearwater, Snake and she was born and raised until the age of twelve. This Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road. Columbia rivers. passage through the high country of eastern Idaho offers a The Idaho Botanical Gardens is home of the Lewis & wealth of engaging stories; many of them considered Clark Native Plant Garden and the Sacajawea bronze Depressed by incessant rain at Fort Clasop, their winter historical legacies of Idaho and beyond. monument. The gardens feature plants described by encampment, the Corps left early for Idaho only to nd http://www.idahobyways.gov/byways/sacajewea.aspx the Bitterroots too covered with snow to pass. The Lewis in his journals. Sculpture by Agnes Vincen Talbot. Corps encamped at Kamiah and stayed longer than any Salmon River Scenic Byway – The northern end of the Sacajawea & Pomp other location during the journey, other than the two Salmon River Scenic Byway begins on the Montana border Idaho Historical Museum in Boise, 610 Julia Davis Dr. winter encampments at Fort Mandan and Fort Clatsop. at the Lost Trail Pass (elevation 6,995 feet). Lewis & Clark The Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, The nearly four weeks spent among the Nez Perce was a came this way in 1805, and the spectacular view from this Salmon, 200 Main Street. time of healing, of learning and of games that is still vantage point has changed little since that famous explo- The bronze statue of Sacajawea and her baby was In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commis- remembered in tribal oral accounts. Finally, the deep ration of the West two centuries ago. The route follows the created in honor of the Lewis & Clark bicentennial. sioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to nd mountain snow melted enough to allow passage back to Salmon River – also called the River of No Return – Sculpture by Agnes Vincen & Steve Talbot. "the most direct and practicable water communica- the headwaters of the Missouri. Several young Nez Perce through the Salmon-Challis National Forest through the led the way, amazing the captains with their uncanny historic city of Salmon. tion across this continent, for the purposes of Seaman, Lewis’ Newfoundland Dog ability to follow the trail that only occasionally appeared http://www.idahobyways.gov/byways/salmon-river.aspx commerce". The Corps of Discovery departed The Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, through the snow. On June 29, 1806, with the notation from Wood River, Illinois in 1804. On August 12, Lewis & Clark Back Country Byway – Meriwether Lewis Salmon, 200 Main Street. 1805, Lewis, leading an advance party, reached "we bid adieu to the snow," the Corps of Discovery left and William Clark stood high on a ridge line that divides Dedicated in 2005, Seaman the life-size bronze is the continental divide at Lemhi Pass and stepped Idaho for the last time near Lolo Pass. continental waters; beginning the discovery of the Pacic located in the 71 acre park at the The Sacajawea foot into what is now Idaho. Northwest. Stands of r and pine trees, high-mountain Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center. Dogs are meadows and rolling, jade-colored hills look much the allowed on site with a leash; for visitor's who forget, The Corps spent 105 days in Idaho during 1805 and same today as when the famous explorers journeyed to the Center offers the loan of leashes, while on the trails. 1806; including some of the most arduous traveling the crest of Lemhi Pass in 1805. Sculpture by Bill Kranstover and Adrian Prazten. of the entire journey. At Lemhi Pass, Lewis gazed http://www.idahobyways.gov/byways/lewis-and-clark.aspx upon ranges of mountains that surely daunted the Sacajawea Fountain explorer's courage. While the Corps of Discovery Hells Canyon Scenic Byway – The Hells Canyon Scenic Lewiston, Pioneer Park 203 5th Street. attempted to nd a safe water passage to the Byway winds its way along the east side of this massive Pioneer Park is the oldest park in Lewiston. The Columbia, it soon became apparent such a passage rift that separates Idaho from neighboring Oregon. The Sacajawea Bronze is protected by four bronze coyote did not exist.