Bird-Truax Trail Articles
Lolo Trail History and Cartography Part 7
Archived: 1992
This report pertains to the Lewis and Clark National Historic Landmark, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. It also applies to all the other trails in the Lolo Trail System: Northern Nez Perces Trail in 1866, Bird-Truax Trail 1866, Lewiston and Virginia City Wagon Road 1866, Route of […]
Lolo Trail Composite Topo Maps
Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark: Composite Topographic Maps Techinical Report
Archived: 2002
These maps are the culmination of thirty-one years of research on the Lolo Trail National Historic Landmark. The author conducted many summers of primitive camping and hiking to access all the trails in this report, and he used precision GPS instruments to record the exact locations of these trail treads. He has hiked all the […]
History of the Lolo Trail and the Nez Perce Indians
Newspaper Articles by John (Jack) P. Harlan et al 1921–1938
Archived: 2011
Starting in 1922, Jack Harlan began his Clearwater Republican and Clearwater Tribune newspaper series on the history of the Lolo Trail. Lolo Trail is a general name for the routes followed by Lewis and Clark in 1805–06 and the route of the Nez Perce during their 1877 flight to freedom. During this time, Harlan traveled […]
Virginia City And Lewiston Wagon Road
Microfilm Records 1865-1870
Archived: 1990
This is a transcribed copy of the microfilm records of the Virginia City and Lewiston Wagon Road project of 1865-1870 by the federal government. Wellington Bird was the project supervisor and disbursing agent and George Benson Nicholson was the civil engineer. This project attempted to build a wagon road from Lewiston, Idaho to Virginia City […]
Virginia City and Lewiston Wagon Road
Archived: 2001
Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the Virginia City, Montana–Lewiston, Idaho Wagon Road, 1865-1870 Complied from the file microcopies of records of the National Archives No. 95, Roll 13. This is the first research report from the microfilm records.
Geographic Report on the Bird-Truax Trail
Archived: 1990
This paper documents the history and geographical location of the Bird-Truax Trail surveyed in 1866 which was the mountainous segment of the planned Virginia City and Lewiston Wagon Road that was never built. This wagon road was a federally-funded project in 1866 and was proposed to be built from Lewiston in Idaho Territory to Virginia […]
Bird-Truax Trail 1866
Index Of Geographic Clues
Archived: 1990
Research has been completed on the topographic location of the Bird-Truax Trail—also called the Lolo Trail of 1866. This index documents the route and place names for future researchers. The database will be continually updated to improve its quality. Route description summary and Gazetteer of place names and geographic features for the portion of the […]
Bird-Truax Trail of 1866
Nicholson Profile & Map Analysis
Archived: 1996
George Benson Nicholson was the civil engineer for the survey of the Virginia City and Lewiston Wagon Road project in 1866. Nicholson did two surveys, a course and distance survey of the Northern Nez Perces Trail (NNT) and a stake and chain survey for the wagon road survey. His survey of the NNT between Lolo, […]