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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TKU_pompeys-pillar-historical_Worden-MT.html
Captain Wm. Clark, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition stopped here July 25, 1806 on his way down the Yellowstone. He wrote in his journal that the rock which he named Pompey's Tower, was: "200 feet high and 400 paces in secumpherance and only ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K9B_a-crossroads-of-events_MT.html
The Yellowstone Valley at Pompeys Pillar was a crossroads for travelers and wildlife and a cavalry campsite and staging area.
The artist's rendering on this sign depicts the area directly across the river as it may have looked in 1873 when Lt. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM167R_camp-44-of-the-1873-yellowstone-expedition_Worden-MT.html
In June, 1873, a Northern Pacific Railroad surveying party escorted by 1,500 soldiers, including the 7th Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer, and 325 civilians, left Dakota Territory for the Yellowstone Valley to survey a route fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM167Q_pompeys-pillar_Worden-MT.html
Called Iishiia Anaache or "Place Where the Mountain Lion Dwells" by the Apsaalooka (Crow) people, Pompey's Pillar was a well-known landmark to the Plains Indians. It was here, at a strategic natural crossing of the Yellowstone, or Elk River as it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD9_along-the-zimmerman-trail_Billings-MT.html
Zimmerman Trail - The History by Artist John Potter.The original Zimmerman Trail was built during the summers of 1890 and 1891 by the brothers Joseph and Frank Zimmerman, born in Fellering, (Alsace-Lorraine) Germany. Joseph immigrated to the Unite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9L_boothill-cemetery_Billings-MT.html
Named Boothill because so many of its occupants went to their deaths with their boots on, this cemetery was the burying ground for Coulson, Yellowstone River town existing from 1877-1885 on the edge of what was to be Billings. Most famous buried h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ6O_the-place-where-the-white-horse-went-down_Billings-MT.html
In 1837-38 a smallpox epidemic spread from the American Fur Trading Company steamboat St. Peter which had docked at Fort Union. The terrible disease for which the Indians had no immunity eventually affected all Montana tribes. A story is told amon…