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John Mullan's celebrated construction project-a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers-established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing the West's first engineered highway at age thirty-two, he lived for nearly another half century, a period of dynamic change. When he died in 1909, automobiles were making their initial crossings along the route he engineered, and his arterial eventually became a critical link in America's longest interstate freeway, I-90. Yet despite frequent mentions in books about the nineteenth century Northwest, the soldier/explorer has remained little more than a caricature: a dashing young Army officer who comes West, builds one of its most important thoroughfares, and then disappears from the region's literature. Now, in lively prose, Idaho State Historian Keith Petersen takes a fresh look at Mullan's road, which has significantly impacted the development of the Northwest for more than 150 years. The deeply researched biography also probes Mullan's complex personality and continues the story, including business partnerships and personal relationships with some of the West's most intriguing characters: Father Pierre-Jean DeSmet, General William T. Sherman, Chico founder John Bidwell, Idaho gold discoverer Elias Pierce, Yakama Indian chief Owhi, and others. Long overdue, Petersen's comprehensive portrayal bestows a full appreciation of Mullan's life-his rise to fame as well as his fall from grace.
Contents
Prologue: New York City, May 7, 1863
Section I
Prelude: Out West, 1841
Chapter 1: Annapolis
Chapter 2: West Point
Chapter 3: Railroad Survey
Chapter 4: Explorer
Chapter 5: Killing Time
Section II
Prelude: Latah Creek, Washington Territory, 1858
Chapter 6: "Lieutenant Mullan's Party Has Been Saved From Destruction"
Chapter 7: Wright's Revenge
Chapter 8: Mullan's Road, 1859-1860
Chapter 9: Mullan's Road, 1861-1862
Chapter 10: "Capt. Mullan Wishes to be Made Governor of Idahoe"
Section III
Prelude: Office of the Governor, Sacramento, January 18, 1889
Chapter 11: Family Feud
Chapter 12: The Chico to Boise Line
Chapter 13: "The Notorious Captain John Mullan"
Chapter 14: Rise and Fall
Chapter 15: Dear Papa
Chapter 16: America's Great National Highway
Epilogue: Mullan, Idaho, January 1, 2001
Appendix: Mullan's Children
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
