Old Toby (died 1858), whose name was Pikee Queenah (Swooping Eagle),
''Lemhi-Shoshone''. Retrieved 14 June 2010. was war chief of the Tuziyammo (Big Lodge) band of

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and a

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.Ontko, Gale. Thunder Over the Ochoco, Volume I: The Gathering Storm, Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, Inc., 1997.

Guide

He served as a guide for the later part of

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in 1805, as did Tetoharsky and Twisted Hair. He guided Clark's exploration of the Salmon River and led the entire party from the

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Valley at

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, over the

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to the

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, and then over the

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to the Clearwater River country above

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.http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1805-08-20.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl. He left the expedition and returned home.

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relayed that he stole horses and returned home. He died of

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in 1858.

Name

Thomas Rees' journal gives his name as Tobe, an abbreviation of ''Tosa-tive koo-be'', meaning "furnished white white-man brains," referring to his work as their guide. He was simply called Toby, but the moniker "Old Toby" was added later in popular literature.

Legacy

A monument was erected is his honor in the 1930s but demolished during construction of US Highway 93. A new monument was erected in his honor in

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, near Highway 93 and the Salmon River Road in 2009.

References

{{reflist Year of birth missing 1858 deaths Lewis and Clark Expedition people Western Shoshone people