When did the white man come to the area where the Crow Indian people lived?
Almost 200 years ago, explorers and fur traders began to come into the area where the Absaaloga people lived. The famous explorers Lewis and Clark floated down the Yellowstone River into this area. While they camped over night, the clever Crow Indians captured their horses. Lewis and Clark continued on special boats, called buffalo bull boats. There were certainly a few explorers and fur traders coming into the area where the Crow Indian people lived, but the most notable were Lewis and Clark from 1804-1806. William Clark came down the Yellowstone River on the return trip from mapping and exploring passage to the western coast of the United States in 1806. He and his party had an encounter with the Crow Indian people. In fact, the Pryor Mountains, Pryor Creek and the town of Pryor get their name from Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Nathaniel Pryor was in charge of the horse herd. As he came down the Yellowstone one particular evening, half of his horses disa
