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Pomp's Tower
This is a Lewis and Clark theme cache. The items that are in it all pertain to the "Corps of Discovery". Please trade only items that fit the theme. The cache is in a wooded area by the Yellowstone River, so it has seasons of ticks, mosquitoes, deer flys, and ever present wild rose bush thorns. There will be some bushwacking towards the end. This cache was placed by members of the
Billings GeoCachers Group.
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The original items were:
Lewis and Clark Trail Map
Lewis and Clark Lager label
Pompeys Pillar Postcard, magnet,
and key chain
Lewis and Clark Conoco coin
Three Sacagawea dollars
Two Corps of Discovery nickels
and
Dream Catcher Travel Bug
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The following information is from www.pompeyspillar.org
Pompeys Pillar is one of the most famous sandstone buttes in America. It bears the only remaining physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which appears on the trail today as it did 200 years ago. On the face of the 150-foot butte, Captain William Clark carved his name on July 25, 1806, during his return to the United States through the beautiful Yellowstone Valley.
Captain Clark named the pillar "Pomps Tower" in honor of Sacagawea's son Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, whom he had nicknamed "Pomp." Nicholas Biddle, first editor of Lewis and Clark's journals, changed the name to "Pompeys Pillar."
Pompeys Pillar is a National Monument maintained and overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. It has a regular season from Memorial day to September 30th with a $7.00 per vehicle fee. Walk in traffic is permitted during the off season. Then it is a little over .5 mile from the parking area
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