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Description: Cantonment Stevens in the Bitterroot Valley of the Washington Territory in the United States in 1853-1854. Gustavus Sohon, artist. Cantonment Stevens was founded by Lt. John Mullan, a United States Army explorer with the Stevens Railroad Survey. It was named for Isaac Stevens, leader of the survey party and later Governor of the Territory of Washington.
Title: Cantonment Stevens
Credit: https://books.google.com/books?id=YfBUAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22John%20Mullan%22%20%22David%20Williamson%22&pg=RA1-PA207#v=onepage&q&f=false
Author: Secretary of War (February 19, 1863). Letter of the Secretary of War, In Answer to a Resolution of the Senate of the 6th Instant, the Report and Maps of Captain John Mullan, United States Army, of His Operations While Engaged in the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla-Walla, On the Columbia River, to Fort Benton, on the Missouri River. Ex. Doc. No. 43. U.S. Senate. 37th Cong., 3d sess (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, overleaf page (between pages 2 and 3).
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