Turned porch supports, elaborately carved brackets, a baluster frieze, and decorative cresting along the roofline ornament this gable-front-and-wing residence. Railroads brought these precut architectural elements to small towns along their tracks, . . . — — Map (db m190837) HM
As soldiers and warriors exchanged fire here at the Canyon mouth, most of the Nez Perce were escaping up a side canyon to the plateau above. The US Army incurred too many casualties to pursue. At the base of the butte near the cottonwoods they . . . — — Map (db m154002) HM WM
In the distance the US Army troops were approaching at a gallop in pursuit of the Nez Perce. After fleeing for 26 miles, the Nez Perce chose this place to make a stand because of the canyon mouth offering natural defenses. Positioned high on the . . . — — Map (db m154003) WM
Soldiers were elements from the Seventh and First Cavalry and the Fourth Artillery. Col. Samuel Sturgis commanding. Casualties; Three dead, eleven wounded.
Indians engaged wee the Nez Perce triple, escaping from their reservation and fleeing to . . . — — Map (db m190839) HM
American auto tourists took to the roads in record numbers in the 1930s. To lure these tourists to Montana, the state highway department's Robert Fletcher developed an ambitious promotional program. It included publication of the first "official" . . . — — Map (db m190775) HM
The Northern Pacific Railroad steamed through the Yellowstone Basin in 1883, passing the small agricultural community of Carlton. The town was renamed Laurel, and a post office opens there in 1886
The Rocky Fork Railroad, an affiliate of the . . . — — Map (db m190774) HM
Captain William Clark provided the first documentation of what is now called Laurel, Montana on July 24, 1806 while encamped at the mouth of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River. His mark, documented on the map that day, projected what he . . . — — Map (db m190772) HM
The park links a series of widely separated sites of deep significance to the Nez Perce historic villages, battlefield, and legends sites. The park experience involves a journey across both time and territory. Although firmly connected to homeland, . . . — — Map (db m154503) HM
This historic bell is from Laurel's North School, which stood between 1909 and 1969 on the 700 block of 1st Avenue. The school's 1908 corner stone stands behind the bell.
The bell was placed in the Chamber of Commerce's garden bed in care of the . . . — — Map (db m190835) HM
In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, resisting relocation from their native lands in northeast Oregon to a reservation in North-Central Idaho, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains into . . . — — Map (db m190773) HM
The first coast-to-coast auto route across the northern tier of states.
Motto: A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound.
Before 1912
Railroads dominated long distance transportation. Local road were dust and mud. There . . . — — Map (db m190771) HM
