Parachute section of the students’ text for The Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942. The handout consists of scanned images SPC # 007-0648 v.1-21.1 through SPC # 007-0648 v.1-21.10.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Salish Indians; Hellgate River (Mont.)
Drawing depicts the camp of Victor, a Flathead Chief. The camp sits on the Hell-Gate River "three miles above its junction with the Bitter Root." Plate XXXI.
"The mission is located upon a hill overlooking extensive prairies stretching to the east and west toward the Coeur D'Alene Mountains and the Columbia River. About a hundred acres of the eastern prairie adjoining the Mission are enclosed and...