Mullan Road Conference comes to Missoula in May

The 2014 Mullan Road Conference will be held in Missoula May 2-4.

Here's what the organizers have to say about the conference:
The 2014 Mullan Road Conference is coming to Missoula May 2-4, just in time to help Montana celebrate its 150th year of territoryhood. 
Take a step back to the 1860s to hear stories from some of the nation's foremost experts about what happened and what's happening on the road that built Montana.
The conference evolved out of the annual Mullan Day celebration that was initiated 25 years ago by the Mineral County Historical Society in Superior, Montana. Since 2006 it has been held each spring along the 624-mile military wagon road that Lieutenant John Mullan and his crews engineered and built in 1859-62 through the Northern Rockies from Walla Walla to Fort Benton. 
A Friday night reception hosted by Fort Missoula museums will be followed on Saturday by a day of presentations and an evening banquet at Ruby’s Reserve Street Inn. On Sunday we'll take a tour of the road east of Missoula and, weather permitting, get a chance to walk in a rare existing footprint of the road.
Although I'm more interested in what happened along the Mullan Road in the Hellgate Valley from about 1880 on, I think this will be a great opportunity to connect with people who know a whole heck of a lot more than me about the history of the area. I hope I can attend.

If you're interested in learning more about the conference, go to the website at http://tworivershistory.net/mullan-road-conference-2014 or the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Mullanroad2014.


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