Stephen Ambrose and Lolo Pass

Here at Lolo Pass, on the spine of the Bitterroot Mountains where Idaho meets Montana, a marker honors the historian Stephen Ambrose. He was the author of Undaunted Courage, the bestselling account that revived America's fascination with the Lewis and Clark expedition. In September of eighteen oh five, the Corps of Discovery struggled across this very pass, eleven brutal days of cold, hunger, and near-impassable trail through the Bitterroots, the hardest leg of their entire journey to the Pacific.

Ambrose loved this ground. The pass remains a place where you can stand on the actual route that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark walked, more than two centuries ago.