admin | May 25, 2010
The yellow sign in the rearview mirror said “No Regular Maintenance: Travel At Your Own Risk” and I had to laugh. From the stories I’ve heard, Lt. John Mullan probably should have been required to post such signs every few miles or so when he came through here with his road-builders in 1860 and 1862. [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Commemorations, Explorations, John Mullan, Montana, Mullan Road, Northern Pacific Railroad, Railroads, Uncategorized, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Bearmouth, Blackfoot River, Clark Fork River, Clinton, Drummond, Fort Benton, Hellgate River, John Mullan, Mullan Road, Turah
admin | March 24, 2009
We’ve all heard about how the railroads changed the namescape of the country they passed through, assigning names to each station. Here’s an excerpt from a hard-to-read railroad column in the Weekly Missoulian in 1883, as the main line of the Northern Pacific was being completed in Montana: “The man who deals out names to [...]
Category: Railroads, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Bearmouth, Bonita, Drummond, Evaro, Garrison, Gold Creek, Northern Pacific, Railroads, Turah