Capt. Mullan’s Lecture at Ft. Owen on the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Great Falls historian Ken Robison tells the story behind a Christmas 1861 address given by Captain John Mullan to the “Historical and Geographical Society” assembled at Fort Owen. Like his titular subjects, Mullan had contributed directly to the dream of a water and overland “Northwest Passage” by constructing a 624-mile Military Wagon Road from Fort Walla Walla, Washington, to Fort Benton in 1860.