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| Long Description | <DIV class="cityaspfont"><ul class= "fotocolumn"><li class="brewfoto"><IMG SRC="/Pictures/Cities/SantaRita_CampDisappointment.JPG" BORDER=0 WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=140 ALIGN=BASELINE><p class="fotocap">Camp Disappointment</p><p class="fotocred">Photo courtesy: Donnie Sexton</p></li></ul> <P>Santa Rita is on the road to the rich <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=83">Cut Bank</a> oil and natural gas fields. (from Cheney's <I>Names on the Face of Montana</I>, Mountain Press Publishing Company) This small town is in northwestern Montana not far from Hay Lake and numerous other glacial lakes in the <a href="/national_parks/glacier/">Glacier National Park</a> region.</P><P>Nearby is the <a href="/places_to_go/indian_nations/niitsitapi-blackfeet">Blackfeet Indian Reservation</a> is along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Its one and a half million acres are bordered on the north by Canada and on the west by Glacier National Park.<P/><P>Santa Rita is also near <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=91">Camp Disappointment</a>, the northernmost point reached by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They reached here on July 23, 1806. On the Cut Bank River east of present-day <a href="/categories/City.asp?CityID=45">Browning</a>, Lewis could see the river exiting the mountains. He called this northern-most campsite of the expedition "Camp Disappointment" since this meant <a href="/categories/moreinfo.asp?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=11083">Marias River</a> did not reach 50 degrees north latitude, which would have extended the boundary of the Louisiana Territory.</P> |
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| Id | 299 |
| Map | browningandcutbankarea.gif |
| Created By | TRAVEL_MT |
| Date Created | 12/22/2004 11:43:04 AM |
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| Locator Id | 10003030 |
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| Map X | 470 |
| Map Y | 92 |
| Name | SANTA RITA |
| Region | GLACIER |
| State | MT |
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| Zip code | 59473 |