In July 1806, William Clark, arguably one of the first Bozeman pioneers, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, took a side trip and visited the Gallatin Valley as he traveled east from Three Forks, Montana, following the Gallatin River.

Journal entries from Clark’s party briefly describe the future Bozeman as the “Valley of the Flowers,” which came from the southwest Montana native tribes’ apt description of Montana's pristine Gallatin Valley.
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