Fort Owen, Flathead Village, USA Santa Maria degli Angeli with crowds watching below

with crowds watching below

Prince Arthur (1850-1942)

with Vulture in the distance

with horses feeding from a trough at right

The Fishes

Fort Owen, Flathead Village, USA Santa Maria degli Angeli with crowds watching belowFort Owen, Flathead Village, USA, 1856. The United States Pacific Railroad Survey party at Fort Owen near present day Stevensville in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. The fort was originally St Mary's Mission, founded by Jesuit Missionary Pierre DeSmet. Print from Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the