Lewis & Clark on the Marias

Glacier County Attorney Larry Epstein describes the fight between Meriwether Lewis’ party of explorers and a small group of young Blackfeet men on the homeward leg of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The encounter resulted in the only Native American deaths during the Corps of Discovery’s three-year trip. Epstein, a nationally recognized expert on this tragic event, was president of the Lewis and Clark Trail Foundation’s national group during the expedition bicentennial and currently serves as that group’s secretary. A fourth-generation Montanan, he grew up in Cut Bank near the encounter site, has studied the expedition since the age of eleven, and offers guided tours of the Two Medicine area. Presence of the Past program series, April 2, 2015