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Clift’s Musselshell to Fort Ellis Military Road
1869 Military Road Exploration
Archived: 2025
In 1869, Captain E. W. Clift explored Montana Territory for the location of a wagon road from the mouth of the Mussellshell River, on the Missouri River, to Fort Ellis. He also explored an alternate of the route that went from White Sulphur Springs to Helena, by way of Duck Creek Pass. This was part […]
Fletcher-Dimmitt 1902 Wagon Trip
Western Kansas to Eastern Washington
Archived: 2015
In 1902, the Fletcher’s and Dimmitt families moved from Kansas to Chesaw, Washington. What was unusual about this migration was that they chose to make the trip by wagon in a day dominated by rail travel. In 1902, there were wagon roads from town to town, but no organized highways. The trip took three months, […]
Lord Selkirk’s Land Grant Map
1817 Map of Assiniboia
Archived: 2015
Lord Selkirk’s (Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk) Land Grant of 116,000 Square Miles, known as Assiniboia, Including the Forts, was mapped in 1817. This land grant was in Canada and North Dakota and included the Red River of the North.
Western Watershed Boundaries
Map of the Continental Divide and the Great Basin Divide
Archived: 2017
This map shows the most significant Western watershed boundaries in the United States, the Great Continental Divide, and the Great Basin Divide. These watershed boundaries were drawn with great accuracy based on USGS topographic maps. Water does not flow out of either the Great Basin or the Great Divide Basin.