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 [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, David Thompson, Explorations, Flathead reservation, Fort Owen, Fur trade, Gold mining, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Mining, Missoula history, Montana, Montana Territory, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: "Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier", 1859-60, Angus McDonald, Bannocks, Blackfeet, Capt William Raynolds, Christopher Higgins, Flatheads, Fort Benton, Fort Connah, Fort Owen, Frank Worden, George Weisel, Gold Creek, Granville Stuart, Hellgate, Hudson's Bay Co., James Stuart, Kalispel, Kootenay, Maj. George Blake, Michael Ogden, Mullan Road, Reece Anderson, Richard Landsdale, Shoshone, St. Ignatius Mission, Tom Adams, Upper Pend d'Oreilles
admin | August 23, 2009
Anybody know whatever happened to Cantonment Stevens? I can’t remember where I first heard of the place, but I thereafter assumed it became the town of Stevensville. Wrong. It seems Cantonment Stevens (cantonment being a military term for a temporary post) was located up the river from Fort Owen, near what became Stevensville. Isaac I. [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Explorations, Fort Owen, John Mullan, Mullan Road, Uncategorized, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Bitterroot Valley, Cantonment Stevens, Fort Owen, Isaac Stevens, John Mullan
