"Fort Owen is situated on the Scattering creek of the Lewis and Clark Trail." Drawing depicts Lieutenant Mullan arriving at Fort Owen with a delegation of chiefs from the Flathead nation. Plate XXX.
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...