Fort Fizzle

By the last evening the barricade held about thirty regulars, roughly as many volunteers, and twenty-one Salish men under Charlo. The Salish had tied white cloths around their heads and arms so the soldiers would not take them for Nez Perce. Charlo had sent word that he would fight the Nimiipuu if they came into the Bitterroot. Yellow Wolf saw the Salish at the soldiers' fort and told the historian Lucullus McWhorter about it decades later: they had always been friends, and now they were helping the soldiers. The Nimiipuu went around them all the next morning.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Fizzle — steps away
  A log barricade built to stop the Nimiipuu in 1877. They climbed the ridge behind it and walked around.
• Travelers' Rest State Park — 4.0 mi
  The one Lewis and Clark campsite with proof in the ground: hearths, gun lead and a latrine still laced with mercury.
• Fort Missoula — 8.5 mi
  An 1877 Army post that held Italian seamen and Japanese immigrant men behind its fence in World War II.
• A Carousel for Missoula — 12 mi
  A cabinetmaker's promise to the city council: give it a home, and he would carve the horses.

More markers nearby

• Lewis and Clark on Lolo Creek — steps away
• The Nez Perce Sikum — 2.6 mi
• The Lolo Trail — 4.2 mi
• The Bitterroot Valley, Homeland of the Selíš — 4.3 mi