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
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