Nomadic Traders and Missionaries Shape Bitter Root Valley
A historical sketch traces early white exploration from 1805, the Flathead and Nez Perce contacts, Father DeSmet’s 1840s missions, and the 1850s settlement drive that formed Missoula. It notes St Marys mission, Cantonement Stevens, and the rise of Hell's Gate and Frenchtown as precursors to Missoula.
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Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Bi Root Valley
Big Hole Mountain Pass
Bitter Root River
Bitter Root Valley
St. Louis
Ely Blackfeet
Fort Hall
Ignace Iroquois
Montana
Jamnces
Father DeSmet
Flatheads
Three Tetons
Gallatin Valley
Gallatin City
Fathers Point
Mengarine
W. Claessens
Joseph Specht
St. Mary’s Mission
Fort Owens
Washington Jay McCormick
Pend d’Oreille
Coeur d’Alene
Fatherstone
Hocken
DeSmet
Sind Louis
Eupe
Amo
Father Ray
John Owen
St. Mary's Mission
Father Ravgalli
Erege
St. Ignatius
Father Hocken
Hudson’s Bay Company
Crow Creek
Angus McDonald
Owen
Oregon
California
Joseph Lampre
William Rodgers
Ben
Jim Simons En Keiser
Gabrielle Prudhomme
Beaverhead
Oregon Trail
Bitter Root
Thomas W. Harris
Caleb E. Irwin
Deer Lodge
Emanuel Martin
Emanuel
Utah
Washington Territory
Washing
Isaac I. Stevens
Northern Pacific Railroad
Stevens
Missoula Country
C. P. Higgins
Thomas Adams
F. H. Burr
Neil McArthur
Hudson's Bay
L. R. Waillet
Henry Brooks
McArthur
Cantonement Stevens
Place
Council Grove
Misaoula County
J. Brown
Rocky Mountains
Manitoba
Hudson’s Bay Post
Missoula County
Washington
Lansdale
Jocko River
Spri
Spri of 1856 Dr. Lansdale
Henry G. Miller
Jocko Agency
Miller
Jocko
Walla Walla
Frenchtown
Baptiste Ducharme
Louis Brown
R. A. Pesky
W. Bills
Hell’s Gate
Angus McLeod
James Mclivor
Two Creeks
Richard Grant
Hell’s Gate Ronde
Captain Grant
Frank L. Worden
Clices LaVasseur
George P. White
Josephine Minesinger
Bishop” Brooks
Robert
Adeline Pelky
Jefferson Henry Pelky
Washrea
Man’s Es
Alder Gulch
James Doran
McLaughlin
William G. Cook
Doran
Cook
Worden & Wamipany
Wia Mills
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