Mullan Days: A Winter Shelter Found In The Woods
By Kim Briggeman
MISSOULIAN
May 6, 2008

GREATER DEBORGIA - Especially on a soft May day like Monday, there is little about these tangled woods to hint of their history.

Where once Lt. John Mullan's wagon road crew built a winter headquarters called Cantonment Jordan in December 1859, semitrailers and RVs make a racket as they fly by.

Old U.S. Highway 10 comes to a screeching halt at a shoulder of Interstate 90's westbound lane, where it used to bend around a spur of mountain known locally as Mullan's Point.
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It's the same ridge that lent at least a modicum of shelter to Mullan and his men nearly 150 years ago. . . .

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Retracing History: Original Mullan Road Full Of Rugged Tales
By Kim Briggeman
MISSOULIAN
May. 1, 2008;
http://www.missoulian.com...news01.txt

"Blazing the Mullan Road," Mineral County Historical Society - excerpted from MINERAL COUNTY PIONEER, Number 6.
http://www.thebigsky.net/...anRoad.htm

REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT WALLA-WALLA TO FORT BENTON, By Capt. JOHN MULLAN, U.S.A. (WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1863). Available online at:
http://www.narhist.ewu.ed..._home.html

Mullan, John, 1830-1909. REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT WALLA-WALLA TO FORT BENTON (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1994). Reprint of Mullan's 1863 report.

Mullan, John. MINERS AND TRAVELERS' GUIDE TO OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, AND COLORADO (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1991).