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 Several years later, Captain John Mull an, of the army, now a resident of Washington Territory, was directed by the Secretary of War to take charge of the construction of the military road from Fort Benton on the Missouri, to Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, a distance of six hundred and twenty-four miles. The construction of this work, passing as it did over the mountain region of what was then all Washington Territory, was naturally <b>Nike Shox an opening examination of the large mining fields now lying in Idaho and Montana Territories, and which owe their chief discovery to Captain Mullan's explorations and researches, while constructing the longest continuous line of military road in the United States, from the head-waters of the Missouri, which drain the eastern side, to.

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