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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (208180)	7/4/2011 10:27:29 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 225578

I've seen episodes of that program but never the ones for Montana and Idaho. There's an old legend that says the surveyors were supposed to go up the Continental Divide but got misled by the Bitterroot Range and went up there instead. I don't think it's true, but the weird shape of Idaho doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Here's a picture I took on the State Line last month: It's over a mile off the road. picasaweb.google.com There were only four ways out of Bannack that I know of. 1) The Bloody Bozeman, which has its share of massacres; 2) The Mormon Road, which goes to Salt Lake; 3) The Mullan Trail, which roughly follows I-90; and 4) The Southern Nez Perce Trail. (You could add the Lolo Trail, followed by Lewis and Clark.) Magruder took the Southern Nez Perce Trail because he had a business in Elk City that he had to attend to. The Mullan, The Southern Nez Perce, and the Lolo Trail were all surveyed as possible railroad routes under orders from Jefferson Davis. The Mullan was developed into a wagon road and later became a rail route, but the other two are too rough. The first white man to cross the Southern NP trail declared "If you care anything at all about humanity, never take a woman on this trail." Little did he realize that literally thousands of women had taken it as the road to the buffalo over the centuries. It's damn rough, though. Now it's even worse because of the deadfall owing to forests that grew up too thick when fire control was instituted, and later burned or got beetle kill, or both. Centuries ago it was probably pretty open due to frequent burning by the Indians and lightning. History Channel - "How the States Got their Shapes."