James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

Before rejoining Isaac Stevens’s narrative of 1853, I want to share a little information. The surveying team was about reach the...

Fort Benton Toward the Bitteroot River On September 23, 1853 the surveying groups headed off in their separate directions. Lt. Saxton...

While a number of Native Americans had been skirmishing with Americans, “the Blackfeet, had been conducting an unofficial war on...

From the 7th through the 11th both Tinkham and Lt. Saxtons teams traversed, in different directions, over rather rough terrain with no...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

We left Stevens and his surveying crews having just arrived at Fort Benton, on the eastern bank of the Missouri, near the Great Bend...

The end of August 1853 found Stevens and several of his teams continuing their journey to Fort Benton. In the last segment, stolen horses...