We headed west at Lolo Montana, to drive the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway back into Idaho. Oh my, who could resist stopping at this historic site? With a name like that, it beckoned us in.

"Fort Fizzle is a wooden barricade on the Lolo Trail erected by Missoula volunteers led by Captain Rawn to stop the advance of Chief Joseph during the Nez Perce war. Captain Rawn had clear orders. He said the Nez Perce could not pass; however, the barricade failed when the Nez Perce, with their horses and possessions, climbed a steep ravine behind the ridge to the north and bypassed the soldiers. This maneuver earned White Bird the nickname of the "Indian Hannibal" and the previously unnamed barricade became a ridiculed 'Fort Fizzle.'"

Below is a replica of one of the entrenchments. When Chief Looking Glass heard of these entrenchments, he laughed and called them "The Soldier's Corral"