The Carroll Trail (unabridged)
Contributed by Steve F. Russell
The Carroll Trail was a wagon road for transporting goods from Carroll Landing on the Missouri River to Helena, Montana. Part 1 explains the basic facts about the trail and answers anticipated reader questions. Part 2 describes the 1875 trip of Captain William Ludlow from Carroll to Camp Baker. Part 3 is an account of the 1874 trip from Helena to Camp Lewis made by Captain Constant Williams and Company F of the 7th U.S. Infantry. Part 4 contains a narrative of the author’s 1988 trip from Carroll to Camp Baker. Photos of the author’s 1988 trip are in Appendix A. Maps of the campsites and landmarks in the Williams Journal are in Appendix B. Appendix C. contains the author’s hand-drawn maps for the newspaper article. Appendix D. contains a series of topographic maps documenting the trail route (only available in the unabridged version of this report).