062 Kalispell, Montana 1897 Bird's Eye View lac michican Lake Sinclair flows downstream

Lake Sinclair flows downstream

Much of the interior was still unknown and inaccurately mapped

Yellowstone River meanders downstream some 670 miles into the Missouri and then

6 miles from Port Clinton is Marblehead

“beautiful water in a high place”

062 Kalispell, Montana 1897 Bird's Eye View lac michican Lake Sinclair flows downstreamBird's Eye View Map of Kalispell, MT 1897 This Southwest looking map of Kalispell features the Conrad Mansion, 6 churches, and The West Hotel, "The Only First Class Hotel in the City." Note the steamboats on Flathead Lake in the background and the rocks of present day Lone Pine Lookout. The name Kalispell is a Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake". It was founded in 1891 by Charles Conrad and his team under the auspices of "The Kalispell