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
As a former Idaho State Historian and Associate Director of the Idaho State Historical Society, Keith Petersen's fascination with history has been expressed throughout his career. The author of numerous articles and books about the Northwest, he is the only person to have twice received the Idaho Book Award.
Petersen received the first annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities from the Idaho Humanities Council in 1986, the Presidential Medallion from Lewis-Clark State College in 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Idaho in 2014.
"John Mullan places Mullan's life squarely within the context of
the times and explains how his driven and sometimes knotty
personality led to his success and his failures."--Jon Axline,
author of Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana's Historic Highway
Bridges, 1860-1956 and Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana
History
"It turns out John Mullan was a human being. Aspects of Mullan's
life have been studied in depth, but few, if any, had taken a
clear-eyed look at the whole picture until Keith Petersen came
along to fit the pieces together--Mullan's boyhood days, the hunger
for success and fame that drove him--sometimes to maniac
extremes--in family and professional relationships, in explorations
and road building exploits, and in his later careers as a developer
and attorney."--Kim Briggeman, Missoulian reporter and Mullan Road
historian
"Petersen's biography infuses John Mullan's many-sided story with
both the road-builder's personal energy and a thorough context of
the forces that drove his work. It also casts an unflinching eye on
the military aspects of Mullan's experience in the Interior
Northwest, and what that meant for the tribes. A full account,
gracefully rendered."--Jack Nisbet, author of Sources of the River,
The Mapmaker's Eye, and The Collector: David Douglas and the
Natural History of the Pacific Northwest
"The scope and depth of Petersen's research is impressive. This
book will serve as the definitive biography of Mullan."--The
Western Historical Quarterly
Well researched and well written. This book is historically
accurate and well worth purchasing and reading. "--Overland Journal
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