Perhaps the most difficult and ragged part of Chief Joseph and his tribe's escape from the U.S. Cavalry in 1877 was maneuvering horses and riders across the Lolo Trail that stretches along the high peaks of the Bltterroot Mountain range in North Idaho, Native Americans used the trail for centuries to travel across the mountains east to the Great Plains to hunt buffalo. The Salish tribe used it to reach the Lochsa river and fish for salmon. Explorers Lewis and Clark, who crossed the trail in 1805, described it as the most challenging and majestic portion of their journey.
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