Mullan Road

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1. Alder Creek

   Creek beside a preserved Idaho road segment.

2. Cedar Creek

   Creek reached by that surviving road segment.

3. Chatcolet Lake

   Lake beside the 1859 road segment.

4. Coeur d'Alene

   Nation involved in resistance during road construction.

5. Corduroy

   Log surfacing used on the road.

6. Cut and Fill

   Earthmoving needed to build the road.

7. Fort Benton

   Eastern endpoint of the military wagon road.

8. Fort Sherman

   Army post whose site was chosen beside the road.

9. Hidden Lake

   Lake reached by the old descent.

10. Isaac Stevens

    Survey leader whose work preceded the road.

11. John Mullan

    Army officer directing the road project.

12. Miners

    Road users bound for Montana mines.

13. Mullan Tree

    Historically marked tree beside the Mullan Road, recalled by a 1900 traveler.

14. Suppliers

    People carrying goods to those mining districts.

15. Walla Walla

    Western fort and endpoint of Mullan Road.