East of Coeur d'Alene, Interstate 90 parallels the historic John Mullan military wagon road as it winds more than 3,000 feet upward through the Fourth of July Pass to its summit. The pass and ...

John Mullan took from 1858 to 1862 to build his military road from Fort Benton to Walla Walla, Wash. The River’s Edge Trail took about a year to open at only 5 ½ miles long, a bit shorter ...

John Mullan's 624-mile feat of ... Anxious to prove the military value of the road, Mullan requested that the Army send 300 soldiers to Ft. Benton with enough supplies to get to Ft. Walla ...

HELENA — The wagon wheel ruts left by those who used Capt. John Mullan’s military road more than 150 years ago, remain just as does interest in the path of ...

John Mullan traveled through the Missoula Valley at least 16 times from 1853 to 1883. He left behind the military wagon road that bears his name, which became, roughly, the ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark get all the glory, but it was Army officer John Mullan who finally opened the Inland Northwest to white settlement. His 624-mile Mullan Road, completed in 1862 ...

DEBORGIA – It was about now in 1859 that John Mullan was questioning his own judgment, if not his sanity. Snow had been piling up since Nov. 1, and the temperature on Dec. 5 plummeted to 42 ...

He served with Mullan on Gov. Isaac Stevens’ railroad survey in 1853-54 that paved the way for construction of the military wagon road several years later. Much of Interstate 90 from Spokane to ...

The round-stone pyramid monument on the southwest corner of Sprague and Vista right in front of Ripley’s Plantation reads: “M-R Military Road located by Captain John Mullan A.D. 1858-A.D. 1862 ...

The 624-mile road was constructed under Lt. John Mullan’s direction in two separate sweeps, ... Trump hails West Point cadets for their accomplishments and takes credit for US military might.