Panoramic image"Beaverhead Rock, Montana"by Brent Phelps 

August 8, 1805

"the Indian woman recognized the point of a high plain to our right which she informed us was not very distant from the summer retreat of her nation ... this hill she says her nation calls the beaver's head from a conceived remblance of it's figure to the head of that animal "

Captain Lewis

Landmark is located along MT 41 about 14 miles north of Dillon ( most do not readily see the shape of the beaver's head in the rock).