John Mullan (1830-1909) (After the Road)

The fortune went largely in a fight over his fees. Mullan's stage venture had been a four-year mail contract from Chico, California, to Ruby City, Idaho, at $75,000 a year. As a lawyer he did well winning federal reimbursements for western governments, and from 1878 he practiced in Washington, D.C., as agent for California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Territory, then spent years pressing those same states for the fees he believed they owed him. From 1883 to 1887 he was also a commissioner of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. He died in Washington on December 28, 1909.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes — 12 mi
  Seventy-two paved miles laid over a railbed poisoned by a century of ore trains.
• Cataldo Mission — 19 mi
  The Schitsu'umsh built it, the 1873 reservation line left it outside, and every August 15 they come back.

More markers nearby

• Saint Joseph Mission (St'uts'te'wes) — 5.6 mi
• Joseph Garry (1910-1975) — 6.6 mi
• Mullan Road — 6.6 mi
• Submerged Valley — 13 mi