Ruby Valley

The Ruby River flows through a mountain valley in the northern Rockies before joining the Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers to form the Jefferson. The surrounding country was used as a hunting ground by Bannock, Shoshone and Flathead peoples, with bison and bighorn sheep among the animals of the region. In 1805 the Lewis and Clark expedition travelled up the neighbouring Jefferson and Beaverhead valleys, following a route already known to Indigenous travellers.