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Route from Fort Ellis Montana to Fort Hope, British Columbia, Traveled by General Sherman July and August 1883
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This map of the Route from Fort Ellis Montana to Fort Hope, British Columbia, Traveled by General Sherman July and August 1883 is very rare*.
Detailed map with hand tinted borders. General William Tecumseh Sherman, Commanding General of the United States Army, made a last inspection tour across the West in 1883, before his retirement. Sherman’s journey of nearly 11,000 miles was in many respects a repeat of his earlier trip in 1877, but the West had changed a great deal in the intervening six years. Sherman and his party left Washington, D.C. June 20, traveling by rail and steamer to Minnesota where they once again took the train. They arrived in Glendive, Montana Territory, June 29th and proceeded on to Fort Keogh for the night. Following a short stay at the Fort near Miles City, they traveled West down the Yellowstone Valley and on July 1 stopped for dinner at the “span new town of Livingston.” The party arrived at Fort Ellis where Sherman had stayed on the previous trip, and spent the Fourth of July. They left For Ellis July 5 and traveled down Trail Creek to Yellowstone Park Headquarters at Mammoth. After touring the park for several days, the group traveled to Bannack, then around the Big Hole Valley and crossed the Continental Divide into Ross’s Hole. July 26th found them camped between Corvallis and Stevensville, and by the end of of the day they had arrived at Fort Missoula. The next day the General left Montana on a Northern Pacific train to continue his journey for two more months.
Condition: Very Good
Map Maker: Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1884
Original Production Year: 1883
Coloring: Hand Coloring
Year: 1883
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