Lewis and Clark Enter Washington

The Clark quotation on the panel says more than it sets out to. The cut brass and the sea shells he noted on Nez Perce dress on October 10, 1805, had come upriver through Native trade from the ships on the coast, years before any American reached this confluence. The expedition was entering a country already tied to the Pacific trade by its own routes. Its two Nez Perce guides, Twisted Hair and Tetoharsky, went on down the Snake and the Columbia with the canoes, speaking for the strangers at the villages along the way.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spalding — 13 mi
  The Nimiipuu went to St. Louis asking about a book. What came back was a mission, a printing press and a museum.
• Buffalo Eddy — 18 mi
  Rock art on both banks of the Snake, made by the ancestors of the Nimiipuu over perhaps 4,500 years, and dated in part by what it shows.

More markers nearby

• Lewiston's Chinese Community — 2.4 mi
• Tsceminicum — 2.5 mi
• John Silcott — 2.8 mi
• 18th St. Bridge — 2.8 mi