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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B73_join-the-voyage-of-discovery_Saltese-MT.html
Wherever you are in Montana, you stand in the pathway of Lewis and Clark. Their 1804-1806 expedition was a grand adventure to investigate the people and resources of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and to seek a navigable passage across the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B72_a-lost-world_Saltese-MT.html
Imagine a world very different than we know today. About 1.5 billion years ago during the Precambrian Era, the earth's environment was desolate, with no trees, fish, animals or birds. Shallow seas with extensive near-shore flats were fed by stream…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B71_a-wonderful-piece-of-engineering-the-mullan-road_Saltese-MT.html
"Our work ... from the 16th of August to the 4th of December, 1859 consisted of cutting through this densely timbered section of one hundred miles, building small bridge were required, and grading thousands of places.... the work was heavy, and ..…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN6_rough-tumble-camps_Saltese-ID.html
Primitive construction camps dotted the Bitterroot Mountains between 1906 and 1912.
Hardy colorful gangs of workers from around the globe called these bleak and often ugly temporary settlements home.
The hard work and disagreeable conditions…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN5_the-wickedest-city_Saltese-MT.html
Buried beneath busy Interstate 90 in the valley below are the bones of what the Chicago Tribune in 1909 named "the wickedest city in America".
This "den of iniquity" sprouted up when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad began building t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN3_st-paul-pass-tunnel_Saltese-MT.html
The Milwaukee Road faced the daunting task of drilling a tunnel 23 feet high, 16 feet wide and 1.7 miles long into Idaho.
It was a damp, dark, dirty dig. After the approaches were prepared in 1906, and a faltering start in 1907, work began in e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN2_the-trail-follows-the-trains_Saltese-MT.html
?and Historians Trace the History along the Trail.
When the Milwaukee Road abandoned its route over the Bitterroot Mountains, salvage companies stripped the line of all the rails, ties, signals, posts and everything else of value. The small fra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUN1_the-route-of-the-hiawatha_Saltese-MT.html
The Last Transcontinental Railroad
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway's Pacific Extension survived for 71 colorful years. Racing silk trains sped along the route, and long, rumbling troop trains carried men and materiel through four wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMX_life-along-the-line_Saltese-MT.html
Just getting groceries up here could be a challenge
Deep winter snow sometimes made getting to school, going to the doctor, or buying food an adventure.
Families living at the top of the Bitterroot Mountains, here at East Portal and Roland, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMV_substation-13_Saltese-MT.html
Once a critical part of the longest electrified railroad in the world, the broken concrete foundation to your left is all that remains of the two-story, brick East Portal Substation.
Essentially a gigantic electric vault, East Portal was the la…