Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military camps; Sihasapa Indians; Kainah Indians; Piegan Indians; Fort Union (Mont.); Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.
Isaac Stevens and other members of the expedition at Fort Union, "meeting with a war party of the Blackfeet, consisting of twenty Blood Indians and forty Piegan Indians." Plate XVII.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military life; Valleys
Looking westward from Cantonment Stevens in the Bitter Root valley. Lieutenant Mullan and his party "established this camp ten miles above Fort Owen." The cantonment sat a little removed from the Indian camp and consisted of "four...