Gustav Sohon (1825–1903) was an artist, interpreter, and topographical assistant. Sohon executed some of the earliest landscape paintings of the Pacific Northwest. One of his first assignments was with Lieutenant John Mullan, who was surveying the country between the Rocky and Bitterroot Mountains for the Pacific Railroad Surveys led by Isaac Stevens.
* See “Sketches by Gustavus Sohon of the Walla Walla Treaty Council,” WSM Gallery Fall 2009
Read about Mullan in our feature “Lost Highway.”