Members of Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition apparently received a pin such as this one to wear during the trip. It probably made it easier to identify who was and who was not a member of the expedition … Continue reading
The Great Northern gave these postcards to members of the 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition to send to friends and relations. I copied them from the Minnesota History Center. Click image to download a 160-KB PDF of this postcard. The … Continue reading
I’ve previously shown an invitation to participate in Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, but that came from another web site. Since then, I’ve acquired this one. It’s in pretty good shape, but the foil seal has been discolored … Continue reading
As I noted in my concluding post about the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, Agnes Laut wrote this book after the expedition recording most of the events and many of the speeches and lectures. The book is illustrated with 21 photos … Continue reading
Here is your one-stop source for all historical expedition documents and downloads. My collection is still missing a few important documents, and I’ll add them to this page as I find them. Click image to download an 9.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading
Eight of the papers that the Great Northern commissioned for the Upper Missouri and Columbia River Historical Expeditions were written by St. Paul native Grace Flandrau. Handpicked by Louis Hill and Ralph Budd, Flandrau was a strange choice, as she … Continue reading
The Upper Missouri Expedition generated a lot of good will for the Great Northern. The 19 editorials reprinted from papers from Portland to Boston in Editorial Comment on the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition of 1925 were only the tip of … Continue reading
On July 21, the Upper Missouri Special went to the railway’s summit on the southern boundary of Glacier Park where the GN had commissioned the sculptor, Gaetano Cecere, to do a statue of John F. Stevens. Then just 31 years … Continue reading
The Upper Missouri Special arrived in East Glacier on July 20, and members of the expedition then returned by auto about 27 miles east to a rail station known as Bombay, but which the Great Northern renamed Meriwether for the … Continue reading
On July 19 the Upper Missouri Special arrived in Havre at 8 am, where expedition members made an auto trip to the site of the last battle of Chief Joseph’s Nez Perce Indians, about 15 miles south of the Great … Continue reading
