James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

We left Stevens and his surveying crews having just arrived at Fort Benton, on the eastern bank of the Missouri, near the Great Bend...

The end of August 1853 found Stevens and several of his teams continuing their journey to Fort Benton. In the last segment, stolen horses...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

For readers who have missed earlier portions of this series, we are reviewing the final report of the explorations (1853-1855) made by...

August 2 - 9, 1853 (continued) Isaac Stevens’ journal describes in great detail the work occupying the men in preparing for their...

August 2 - 9, 1853 Isaac Stevens’ journal describes the plateau between the Missouri and Mouse rivers as an area that could not be called...