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Blazers of Trails The First Business Enterprise in What is Now Montana
Great Falls Montana January 28 1907 The Great Northern Railway plans a second northwest expedition next July under W R Smith to explore the Missouri River region and the Shining Mountains following last summers unveiling of monuments to La Verendrye and others. The article recounts the La Verendryes Mandan contact and the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific, highlighting the routes via Mandan villages to the Big Horns and Three Forks Montana.
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Great Falls
Montana
Great Northern Railway
W.R. Smith
West
Lewis
Missouri
Great Northern
North Dakota
Pierre Gaultierre Des Varennes
Sieur de la Verendrye
David Thompson
Meriweather Lewis
John F. Stevena
Kit Carson
Jim Bridger
Eat
Mississippi River
United Sane
Great
Northwest
United States
Maryland
Washington City
West Virginia
Ohio
Washington
Forest
Plains
North America
France
Great Sea of the West
Pacific Ocean
Rocky Mountains
la Verendryes
Sieur, la Verendrye
Canada
Missouri River
la Verendrye
Lewis and Clark
Mandans
Montreal
Pierre
Chevalier
Mandan
Bow
North and
South Dakota
Little Missouri
Marmarth
N. D
Fallon
Carter Counties
Powder River
Big Horn Mountains
Wyoming
Shining Mountains
Rockies
Big Horn
Yellowstone National Park
Mor
Pell
Order of St. Louis
la Verentye
Auguste
Merriweather Lewis
William Clark
Jefferson
Charbonneau
Hudson's Bay Company
Sakakawea
Marias River
Fort Benton
Portage Creek
Ordway
Clark
Bakakawea
York
Three Forks of the
Gallatin
Madison
Nife River
Sakaawea
Bitter Rock Mountains
Lo Lo
Pacific Coast
Captain Clark
Bozeman Pass
Yellowstone River
St. Louis