The BURG

This week's column quotes from Bill Gulick's "Chief Joseph Country"

I visited the site of the Lewis and Clark encampment with the steel silhouette sculptures featuring 80 artistically detailed silhouettes depicting a typical campsite of the Corps of Discovery as they passed through on May 2, 1806. I noted on the plaque at the site that they traveled 19 miles that day.

Inside Lewis and Clark Trail State Park

"In early May of 1806, Lewis and Clark passed through here on their return from the Pacific Ocean heading east."

They traveled on the trail (Nez Perce) through what is now Dayton to this sp...