The Mullan Road: Carving a Passage through the Frontier Northwest, 1859-1862
12 top western historians have collaborated to produce this wide-ranging examination of the famed Mullan Road the 624-mile military wagon road built between Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, and Fort Benton, in the future state of Montana. Both an excellent resource for western history scholars and an absorbing chronicle for lay readers, this book will inform, fascinate, and inspire in equal measure.
Edited by Paul D. McDermott and Ronald E. Grim. Softcover, 296 pages, color photos, maps, illus.
