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The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and is 463 metres (1,519 ft) wide. It was excavated to a depth of 240 metres (790 ft), but then partially infilled with debris reducing its depth to about 215 metres (705 ft). Since then it has accumulated about 40 metres (130 ft) of water, leaving 175 metres (574 ft) of the hole visible.
Just east of the continental divide at Chief Joseph Pass, Big Hole National Battlefield is located on 975.61 acres (3.9 km 2) [1] (including 320 acres/1.3 km 2 privately held), [1] ten miles (16 km) west of Wisdom on Montana Highway 43. A year-round visitor center is located in the park.
Pat Munday, George Grant and the Conservation of the Big Hole River Watershed Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Summer 2002): 20–37. George F. Grant, ed., The Upper Clark Fork River, a special edition of the River Rat (July/August 1976). Bill Rooney review of Three Men, Three Rivers in American Forests (September/October 1994).
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.
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Unknown to the Nez Perce, Colonel John Gibbon had left Fort Shaw with 161 officers and men and one howitzer. Following the trail of the Nez Perce he collected 45 civilian volunteers in the Bitterroot Valley. [4] On August 8, a detachment led by Lieutenant James Bradley discovered the Nez Perce camp along the North Fork of the Big Hole River. [5]
Go with a big appetite and a healthy sense of humor. Where it's at: Capital of the Great Lake State State, Jackson is named for the 7th U.S. president. It's also the birthplace of the Republican ...
Big Hole National Forest was established as the Big Hole Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Montana and Idaho on November 5, 1906 with 1,917,100 acres (7,758 km 2). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Big Hole was divided between Beaverhead, Deerlodge and Bitterroot National Forests and the name was ...