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. [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
As the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Mullan Road approaches (May 20-22, see previous post and the conference website) we should check in with the road-building crew’s progress in May of 1860. Remember, they’d wintered at Cantonment Jordan near DeBorgia, after topping the Bitterroots in late 1859, working their way eastward from Walla [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
The Mullan Road conference, marking the 150th anniversary of the road’s construction, is May 20-22 in Fort Benton and there’s still time to register. They want the registration forms by May 17 for those who want to take part in the whole shooting match, which includes what should be a great bus trip to the [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
Ken Robison, the Mullan Road guru from Great Falls/Fort Benton, sends this update: From May 20-22, 2010 the River & Plains Society will host the 150th Anniversary Mullan Road Conference in Fort Benton. The conference celebrates completion of the Mullan Military Wagon Road in 1860, the first wagon road from Fort Benton to cross the [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Here’s how John Neihardt described his visit to the highest of the Great Falls of the Missouri in late July, 1908: “I caught myself tightly gripping the ledge and shrinking with a shuddering instinctive fear. Then suddenly the thunders seemed to stifle all memory of sound – and left only the silent universe with myself [...]
admin | December 8, 2009
We’re in the early stages of the 150th anniversary of construction of the Mullan Road (see story in Missoulian, Dec. 5) and if you’re like me you get to wondering what it was like around here in 1859-60. George Weisel’s trusty “Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier,” a remarkable study based on the ledger [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
Ken Robison, historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton, sends this post concerning next year’s celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Mullan Road. … “We plan to hold the Mullan Conference 21-22 May 2010, probably with a reception Thursday evening the 20th. … We plan to set up [...]
admin | April 13, 2009
Granted, we can take centennials and bicentennials and sesquicentennials and the like too far. Every year there’s a crop of them. But consider 2009. – 400 years ago (1609), within a five-week summer span, Champlain journeyed onto the New York lake that bears his name and Henry Hudson floated into New York harbor, launching a [...]
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