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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BE8_northwest-passage_Missoula-MT.html
Since the late 1400s and the time of Columbus, explorers from all over the world eagerly sought to discover the legendary water route, or "Northwest Passage," that was rumored to bisect the resource-rich interior of the North American continent.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BE5_name-that-river_Missoula-MT.html
Long before railroads and highways, rivers were the lifelines of travel and trade. The Lewis and Clark Expedition named and described hundreds of rivers as they mapped their way west.
While the expedition camped about 10 miles south of here, Cap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BE4_danger-ahead_Missoula-MT.html
The narrow river canyons upstream from here have a long and bloody past.
As the Salish, Nez Perce and other western mountain Indian tribes passed through these canyons enroute to buffalo hunting grounds east of the Rocky Mountains, they were oft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BDB_sliderock-lookout-tower_Missoula-MT.html
The United States Forest Service's first fire lookouts system was a crude setup of tents and crow's nest lookouts. Watching for wild fires in unpopulated areas was a relatively new idea and was regarded with little importance until the Great Fire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCX_1877-fort-missoula-officers-club_Missoula-MT.html
On this site stood one of the oldest buildings of Fort Missoula. Upon the Fort's establishment in 1877, a one-story log structure was constructed for use as a laundress's quarters. The project's cost came to $450.00. According to long-time Missoul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCW_fort-missoula-post-headquarters_Missoula-MT.html
Fort Missoula's first chapel was completed in 1885. During the late 1930s, the Works Progress Administration allocated funds to renovate the deteriorating building in order to create a new post headquarters with an upstairs courtroom. A concrete f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCV_t-1-post-headquarters_Missoula-MT.html
The old post chapel once occupied this site where, in 1940, officials located the fort's administrative center. Built for $15,300, the tall stucco-covered frame building housed the commanding officer and his staff. After the bombing of Pearl Harbo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCU_galloping-goose_Missoula-MT.html
Shuttle cars were used to haul men to the logging operation in the woods. The car was a self-propelled unit with an interior engine powering the rear wheels with a chain drive. With a window on either end, it could travel in either direction and a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BCF_fort-missoula-post-hospital_Missoula-MT.html
The first hospital at Fort Missoula consisted of two tents and a shanty set up by the 3rd Infantry in 1877. The following year and L-shaped frame building with a capacity of 12 patients was completed. Dr. Robert Mills Whitefoot, a Civil War vetera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BC5_fort-missoula_Missoula-MT.html
Fort Missoula, established in 1877 to provide military control over western Montana's Indian tribes and protect local settlers, was the only permanent military post west of the Continental Divide. There was little conflict, but the fort's non-comb…