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 […]

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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, […]

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