Old Toby (died 1858), whose given name was Pikee Queenah ("Swooping Eagle"),[1] was a war chief of the Tuziyammo (Big Lodge) band of Western Shoshone and a Shoshone dog soldier who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition over the Continental Divide in 1805.
[2] Lewis and Clark first met Old Toby in August 1805 when they encountered Cameahwait's band of Shoshones living on the Lemhi River in what is now eastern Idaho.
Lewis and Clark thus hired him to guide the expedition overland for their portage through the mountains and then accompany them downstream to the Columbia.
[2] 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.
In 2009, a new monument was erected in his honor in North Fork, Idaho, near Highway 93 and the Salmon River Road.