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.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Hellgate River (Mont.); Floods
Lieutenant Mullan and party crossing the Hell-Gate River. This river being flooded, "his whole party and property were nearly lost in using a raft unmanageable in the swift current." Plate LVI.