main or branch lines. For more than 800 miles in North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, the railway and the old trail are either parallel—one on land, the other by water—or actually coincident.
Among the prominent places or landmarks common to both, more or less, are the raitway crossing of the Missouri river at Bismarck and Mandan, N. D.; Glendive, the Wolf, Bear, and Buffalo rapids of the Yellowstone river, Miles City, the mouth of the Big Horn river, Pompey’s Pillar, Clark’s Camp, where cottonwood-tree canoes were made at the base of certain “black bluffs” near Rapids siding, “Rivers Across” near Big Timber, Livingston and the Bozeman Pass, Bozeman, Logan, the Three Forks of the Missouri river, the Cañon of the Missouri, the Cañon of the Jefferson river, Missoula, Lolo peak, seen from Missoula and at the base of which the expedition passed when following the trail along Lolo—Travelers’-rest—creek, in
Down the Yellowstone River, on the Northern Pacific Railway, looking toward Sheridan Butte, between Buffalo and Wolf Rapids named by Captain Clark.
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