In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark (44 page)

Twisted Hair (Nez Perce chief),
65

Two Medicine River,
74

Udall, Stewart,
129–130
,
149

Umatilla (Native American tribe),
65

Umatilla (Oregon),
99

Union Pacific Railroad,
90

U.S. Bureau of Ethnology,
23
,
181(n17)

U.S. Congress,
xi
,
19
; authorizes Pick-Sloan program,
137–138
; first federal aid to highway act,
95
; funding for Lewis and Clark 1905 Portland exposition,
16
; and Good Roads movement,
95
; and interstate highway system,
105
; Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail creation,
153
,
159
; Lewis and Clark National Trail Commission creation,
6
,
130
,
150
,
159
; Lewis and Clark trail plan legislation,
130
; Lewis-Clark Highway,
126

U.S. Department of the Interior,
131
,
145
,
152

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
155

U.S. Forest Service: historical trail markers and interpretive signs,
87–88
,
149
; Lolo Trail maintenance before motorway constructed,
87
; recreation sites and access road development,
155
; road construction between Pierce (Idaho), and Lolo Pass,
99
; and sesquicentennial,
122

U.S. Geological Survey,
82
,
84
,
88

U.S. government,
7
,
9

U.S. Highway
2
,
53
,
97

U.S. Highway
10
,
102

U.S. Highway
12
.
See
Lewis-Clark Highway

U.S. Highway
12
Association,
164

U.S. Highway
30
,
93

U.S. Highway
40
,
90

U.S. Highway
66
.
See
Route
66

U.S. Highway
87
,
55

U.S. Highway
91
,
101

U.S. Highway
93
,
102

U.S. Highway
101
,
109

U.S. Highway 287,
60

U.S. War Department,
30

University of Montana (Missoula),
117
,
161

University of North Dakota,
115

University of Wisconsin,
142

Upper Missouri River.
See
Missouri River

Upper Missouri Wild and Scenic River,
54
,
55

Urquehart, Mr. and Mr. Charles, Sr.,
149

Utah (state),
17
,
46
,
93

Van Arsdol, C. C.,
81
,
84

Valley County Lewis and Clark Trail Society (Montana),
151

Vancouver (Washington),
68

Vermillion River,
47

Vermillion (South Dakota),
47

Vermont (state),
91

Vestal, Stanley,
137

Virginia (state),
28–29
,
38

Waa-No-Inee-Git Indian Dancers,
160

Wahiakkum (Native American tribe),
68

Wahpeton (North Dakota),
125

Waitsburg (Washington),
70

Walla Walla River,
70

Walla Walla (Washington),
65
,
70
,
80
,
125

Wallawa Valley (Oregon),
64

Wall Street Journal
,
142–143
,
150

Wallula Gap,
99

Walula (Walla Walla) (Native American tribe),
65

Wappato roots,
68

Warrenton (Oregon),
109

Wasco (Native American tribe),
67

Washburn (North Dakota),
50
,
51
,
157
,
167

Washington, D.C.,
15
,
25
,
77
,
94

Washington Park (Portland, Oregon),
23
,
24
,
25
,
26
,
28

Washington (state): Astoria bridge connects with Oregon,
69
; Beacon Rock State Park,
145
; Clark and Lewis counties,
112
; expedition explores Chinook Point and Baker's Bay,
68
; Fort Canby State Park (Cape Disappointment),
167
; Fort Columbia and Sacagawea state parks,
145
; Gray (Ralph) on,
102
; Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail,
131
; at Lewis
and Clark 1905 Portland exposition,
17
; mountain peaks Adams, Rainier, and St. Helens,
69
; public awareness of expedition,
5–6
; sesquicentennial,
6
,
108
,
124
,
126
,
145
; shift in means for commemorating expedition,
5
; sites lost or altered along Columbia River,
140–141

Washington State Lewis and Clark Trail Committee,
125
,
156

Washington State University,
149

Washington Territory,
80

Washougal (Washington),
70

Water Quality Act (1965),
129

Watkuweis (elderly Nez Perce woman),
65

We Proceeded On
(periodical),
151

Weippe (Idaho),
64
,
84

Weippe Prairie: and Clearwater River,
148
; expedition enters after westward crossing of Lolo Trail,
64
,
70
; expedition saved from starvation,
84
; Gray (Ralph) on,
102–103
; as National Historic Landmark,
148
; snow turns back expedition returning,
71
; wagon road to Pierce gold camps,
87

Weitas Meadows,
84–85
,
100

Wendover Ridge,
64

Werner, William,
73

West, Helen B.,
2
,
171(n5)

Western communities,
165

Western expansion and conquest,
18–19
,
145
; Astoria column as monument to western expansion,
29
; the expedition and,
8
; Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and Lewis and Clark expedition,
145
; Lewis and Clark 1905 Portland exposition symbolizing,
17
,
145
; Lewis and Clark plaque commemorating expansion and strengthening of U.S. claims to Pacific Northwest,
149
; Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark,
145
; Museum of Westward Expansion,
146
; sesquicentennial pageant portrayals of Indians,
119
; and slavery/ sectional conflict,
8
; Turner's frontier thesis,
8
; view of progress through conquest,
2

Western Montana College of Education,
121

Western Railway Club (Chicago),
111

Westways
(periodical),
105

Wetlands,
155

Wheeler, Burton K.,
37

Wheeler, Olin D.: chief advertising executive for Northern Pacific Railway,
60
,
78
; Coues and,
81
,
84
; DeCamp (Wheeler's photographer),
60
,
83–84
; guidebook,
The Trail of Lewis and
Clark,
9
,
78
,
83
,
90
,
156
; Lewis and Clark centennial,
79
; Lewis and Clark journals and,
79
,
81
,
85
,
89
; locating Lewis and Clark campsites,
80
,
82
,
84–85
; retracing route,
78–86
,
89–90
,
100
; tourism promotion,
79
,
83
; and Van Arsdol railroad survey and maps,
81
,
84
; and Wright,
81–84

White Bear Island Camp,
74

White Bear Islands,
58

White, Betty,
161

White Cliffs (on the Missouri River),
12
,
54
,
55
,
80
,
132
,
156

White Earth River,
53

White Island Camp.
See
White Bear Island Camp

White Mountain Apache,
160

White Rocks.
See
White Cliffs

Whitehall (Montana),
60

Whitehouse, Joseph,
120–121
; journal,
88

Whitman, Lester,
91

Wicks, Jon,
110

Wild Goose Rapids,
71

Wilderness Act (1964),
129

Wilderness Advocacy,
96

Williamsburg (Virginia),
145

Williston (North Dakota),
33
,
52
,
96–97

Wind River Reservation (Wyoming),
22
,
26
,
101
,
109
,
172(n18)

Winter Camp 1803–1804,
101
,
135

Winter of 1804–1805,
44
,
50
,
51

Winter of 1805–06: Fort Clatsop and replica,
32
,
111
; Salt Cairn,
33
,
34
,
38
,
68
; Scammon on Astoria landmarks,
12
; Wheeler visit to Salt Cairn,
85

Winton Company (automobile makers),
91

Wisconsin State Historical Society,
9

Wisdom River.
See
Big Hole River

Wishram (Native American tribe),
67

Wishram (Washington),
33
,
66

Wolf Creek (Montana),
58

Wolf Point (Montana),
53

Women's suffrage movement,
22–24
,
24

Wonderland
(Northern Pacific's travel magazine),
78–79

Wood River encampment (Illinois),
42
,
101
,
144

Wood River/Camp Dubois State Park,
167

Wood, Thomas,
114

Woodcock, Aggie,
123

World War I,
26
,
90–92

World War II,
104
,
108
,
162
,
165

Wright, W. H.,
81–83

Wyoming (state),
22
,
26
,
62
,
109
,
180(n5)

Wyss, Marilyn,
94

Yakima (Native American tribe),
65

Yakima (Washington),
81

Yankton (Native American tribe),
47

Yankton Reservation (South Dakota),
139

Yankton (South Dakota),
47
,
150

Yates, Ted,
133–134

Yellepit.
See
Chief Yellepit

Yellowstone National Park: Evergreen Highway caravan to,
94–95
; railroad resort destination,
89–90
; Satterfield on,
157
; and state recreation waterway to Pompey's Pillar,
184(n43)
; Yellowstone River and,
52
,
72

Yellowstone River,
62
; Bozeman Pass crossing to,
71–72
; Clark encounters Pompey's Pillar,
73
; Clark's party needs wood for dugout canoes,
73
; confluence with Missouri River,
52
,
97
; Continental Divide crossing on way to,
62
; expedition on,
74
; Freeman account of,
135–136
; historic sites,
148
; and Interstate
90
,
168
; and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,
146
; Lewis and Clark National Trail Commission,
142
,
144
; Montana Lewis and Clark Trail Committee,
146
; Montana Recreation Waterway,
184(n43)
; and Montana State Highway
200
,
54
; Pompey's Pillar National Monument,
73
,
167
,
184(n43)
; Pryor sent down to obtain horses,
175(n20)
; Sacagawea and,
21
; Satterfield account,
157
; sesquicentennial,
125

Yellowstone Trail,
37
,
94

Yellowstone Trail Association,
94

York (William Clark's slave),
38
,
51
,
68
; portrayed in pageant,
120
; in statues,
29
,
40

Your Land Forever
(pageant),
122

Zelinsky, Wilbur,
7
,
11