Lewis and Clark

The horses caused a quarrel. Twisted Hair, Walammottinin, had agreed the autumn before to keep the Corps' herd, but Cut Nose, Neeshneparkkeook, and Broken Arm, back from a raid on the Shoshone, accused him of letting young men ride the animals hard enough to injure them; Twisted Hair, tired of the argument, admitted he had neglected them. The captains stayed a day with him so he could round them up, then went on to Broken Arm's lodge to pay their respects, and they gave Twisted Hair a gun and ammunition for his care of the herd.

What the plaque says

Lewis and Clark On their eastbound journey, the Corps of Discovery and several Nez Perce reached the Nezperce Prairie from present-day Peck on May 8, 1806, and camped on "a Small handsom Stream". On May 9 the party arrived at the root-digging camp of Twisted Hair on the Nezperce Prairie. From there, Pvt. Willard accompanied Twisted Hair and two of his young men to the Clearwater River to retrieve saddles, gunpowder, and horses left the previous October. On May 10 the Corps traveled southeast 16 miles across an open and snowy prairie, passing within a mile of Nezperce, before descending into Lawyer's Canyon enroute to Chief Broken Arm's camp near Kamiah. Sgt. Ordway and Privates Frazer and Weiser passed within a mile south of Nezperce on May 27 on their way to Salmon River to obtain fish. 492

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heart of the Monster — 11 mi
  Where the Nimiipuu say their story begins: Coyote, a monster, and the heart he tore loose, still on the Clearwater's bank.
• Weippe Prairie — 17 mi
  Where the Nimiipuu decided what to do with Clark's starving men, and fed them camas until they were sick.

More markers nearby

• Camas Prairie — 7.5 mi
• Lewis and Clark — 8.6 mi
• Lawyer's Canyon — 8.6 mi
• Railroad Trestles — 8.6 mi