How Merriweather Lewis's cutthroat trout sealed Custer's fate at the Little Bighorn
Lessner R. How Merriweather Lewis's cutthroat trout sealed Custer's fate at the Little Bighorn. The American Museum of Fly Fishing
Trout fishing was an important part of European settlement in the American West from the very beginning. Explorers, trappers, pioneers, soldiers, and homesteaders all brought along fishing tackle as they pushed westward across the Great Plains and into the Rocky Mountains, where they found rivers and streams flowing with clear, cold water and fairly bursting with new and exotic members of the family Salmonidae. Angling for trout (and salmon) had a significant place in the Lewis and Clark expedition and also played an improbable role in the outcome of the one of the most famous Indian battles on the nineteenth-century frontier.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lessner, Richard
- Publisher
- The American Museum of Fly Fishing
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- history, trout, Westslope cutthroat trout, Yellowstone cutthroat trout
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Fishes