Montana Yesterday

admin | June 8, 2010

We were in Milltown at the end of our last post. In just a few hundred yards, before you get to the churches and school at Bonner, turn right off Highway 200 onto Highway 210 through Piltzville. The Mullan Road tended to hug the base of the mountain tighter than the today’s highway does because [...]

Category: 1850s-1860s, John Mullan, Mullan Road, Railroads, Stagecoaches, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: Bearmouth, Beavertail Hill, Clinton, Medicine Tree Hill, Milltown, Mullan Road, Nimrod, Piltzville, Rock Creek, Turah

admin | June 8, 2010

It’s safe to say that if you’re going to follow the footprint of the original Mullan Road this summer, you’ll probably have one of those moo-ving Montana experiences. You know, the kind that occurs when your backroad is blocked by languorous broods of red or black bovines.  Admit it: you’ve leaned out the window and [...]

Category: 1850s-1860s, John Mullan, Montana local history, Mullan Road, Northern Pacific Railroad, Old West, Western Montana history | No Comments »
Tags: Brickyard Hill, Deer Lodge Valley, East Missoula, Marshall Grade, Missoula, Mullan Road, Nimrod/Bearmouth