5:30-7:30 p.m.: Evening reception at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Fort Missoula, in conjunction with The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. Registration and pre-registration packets will be available.
Saturday, May 3 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Presentations at Ruby's Inn and Convention Center, 4825 N. Reserve St., Missoula
8 to 9 a.m.: Conference registration and pre-conference Meet and Greet
9:00 to 9:15 a.m.: Welcome and announcements - Reports from Mullan Road Regions
9:15 to 10:00 Stewart Nash “Mullan”s Character”
10:00 to 10:45 Sally Thompson “Senkoposa' 1859” (Garrison Junction)
10:45 to 11:00 Break
11:00 to 11:30 Dan McDermott “The Wright Campaign of 1858 as Seen By Gustavus Sohon”
11:30 to noon Bill Youngs "The Mullan Road after John Mullan"
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Prepaid lunch or lunch on your own
1:00 to 1:45 Ken Egan “Love and Outlaws at Sun River Indian Farm”
1:45 to 2:45 Julie Cajune “A Tribal Perspective of the Mullan Road”
2:45 to 3:00 Break
3:00 to 3:30 Ken Robison "The Mullan Road, the Civil War, and the Formation of Montana Territory"
3:30 to 4:15 Bill Weikel “Mapping the Mullan Military Wagon Road and Subsequent Road Changes.”
4:15 to 4:30 Kim Briggeman “Mullan on the Hellgate”
6:30 p.m.: Dinner at Ruby's Inn. Keynote speaker: Keith Petersen “John Mullan: The Man Behind the Road”
Tour heads east of Missoula up the Clark Fork River to Medicine Tree Hill, 35 miles east. Highlights include the history bluff overlooking Mullan’s Cantonment Wright at the mouth of the Big Blackfoot, and Three-Mile Grade, constructed by the Mullan road crew during the devastating winter of 1861-62.