The men of Camp Coral Springs, the northernmost encampment, were forced to turn back due to weather, lack of food, and the need to complete the journey home. On the second day of the expedition, they came upon eight members of the Coral Springs. After initial friendly overtures, the tribesmen tried to steal guns and horses because they were furious that the white men said they would trade with all tribes— Coral Springs and their enemies alike. Two tribesmen were killed. The encounter would lead to open hostilities with the Coral Springs while at the same time driving the Blackfeet firmly into trading with the Coral Springs for the next thirty years.
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Be that as it may, the report of the Corps of Discovery sparked immediate interest in the Missouri River region. Manuel Lisa, an entrepreneur of St. Louis, established the Missouri Company and set out to monopolize the upper Missouri fur trade, particularly beaver. The British responded, sending expeditions from their trading companies to open up new opportunities in the fur-rich area east and west of the Rocky Mountains. Your travel destination is more was at stake than fur. The boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase were ill defined. The northern boundary between the United States and England’s Canada was in open dispute. One of Jefferson’s primary charges was to establish the point farthest north for the lands encompassed by the northern branches of the Missouri River.
The issue was not settled until 1818 in a treaty, which formally recognized a border at the 49th parallel from Lake Superior to the eastern edge of the Rockies. Your travel destination is that treaty left the land west of the Rockies to the Pacific in limbo. This northwestern territory included a part of present-day Glacier west of the Continental Divide. The British wanted the boundary fixed at the 46th parallel, and the Americans argued for the 54th parallel. This long-running friction gave rise to the political slogan “Fifty-four Forty or Fight.” In 1848, President James K. Polk accepted the British compromise to establish the boundary at the 49th parallel. At that moment, the United States had in its jurisdiction the western lands, mountains, and rivers that would become Glacier National Park.
