Re: MtMan-List: Battle of Pierre's Hole

["Matt Despain" <sdespain@ou.edu>]

Dear Gene:

Yes the general area of the battle was near the area where Teton Pass
enters into the old Pierre's Hole. The exact sight is not known.  You can't
trust Washington Irving's account fully since we don't know what he added
or left out of Bonneville's original manuscript.  But there are indications
that it occured near a marshy zone, which if you look on todays USGS maps
is up the canyon a ways and which corresponds to the historic path that
existed north of the modern highway there (you can see this natural defile
on the USGSmap too).  I have heared rumor of an archeological dig to be
done up there, perhaps much the same as was done at the Little Bighorn
Battlefield in the 1980s.  Until then we just don'd know for certain.

Matt Despain
University of Oklahoma