Wagon Travel on the Mullan Road
This file appears in: The Mullan Road: Waypoints in the Palouse Tour
An artist's depiction of a covered wagon traversing the Mullan Road,per its intended purpose. Utilization of the Road as a migrant highway was popular,but stifled as the railroad was constructed through Montana,Idaho,and Washington.
Image courtesy of Library of Congress.
This file appears in: The Mullan Road: Waypoints in the Palouse Tour
The Mullan Road: Waypoints in the Palouse Tour
You are standing near the path of the Mullan Road, the first wagon road across the northern Rocky Mountains.
Since before Lewis and Clark, it was an American dream to establish an effective route…