Tori and I at Madison Buffalo Jump
Tori Peering over the jump
Three Forks
The Gallatin, The Madison and The Missouri
So today we all toured all over the Gallatin Valley in Montana. We saw the Three Forks headwaters of the Missouri, the Gallatin, and the Madison rivers. It was at that site that Sacajawea was kidnapped at 12 years old and watched her mother and siblings murdered. It would be at that same site years later where in company of Lewis and Clark, her husband and her son Pompeii she would be reunited with her original homeland. It was AMAZING to know that I was standing where these people once stood.
Later we continued on to the Madison Buffalo Jump. I have never felt more impressed with a historical monument! To think that people herded Buffalo over the cliffs to their deaths to survive 12,000 years ago and I was standing there today.
So of course a few of us had to climb it. And then after that exhausting but AMAZING trek we of course had to scale the cliff down to find arrowheads, bones and other interesting little tidbits!
Today at the Buffalo Jump is a life experience I will never forget!
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