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Fort Owen, Flathead Village, USA, 1856. The United States Pacific Railroad Survey party at Fort Owen near present-day Stevensville in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. The fort was originally St Mary's Mission, founded by Jesuit Missionary Pierre DeSmet. Print from Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-1855, by Beverley Tucker, volume III, published by Sarony, Major and Knapp (Washington, 1856).