Author: Fort Benton Board of Trade, Fort Benton, MontPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The City of Fort Benton, Territory of Montana
Author: Fort Benton Board of Trade, Fort Benton, MontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Fort Benton
Author: Ken RobisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439623252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fort Benton, the head of navigation on the Missouri River, is known as the Birthplace of Montana. Its history spans every era in Montanas development. Founded in 1846 as a fur-trading post, it is Montanas oldest continuous settlement. Arrival of the first steamboats and completion of the Mullan Road in 1860 heralded the steamboat era, bringing gold seekers, merchant princes, scoundrels, soldiers, North West Mounted Police, and eventually women and children to the wild frontier. Then came the railroads, open-range ranching, and homesteaders by the thousands. Today Fort Benton serves the agricultural Golden Triangle and presents its colorful history through cultural tourism.
Ordinances of the City of Fort Benton, Territory of Montana
Author: Fort Benton (Mont.)Historic Tales of Fort Benton
Author: Ken RobisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439678685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"...more romance, tragedy and vigorous life than many a city a hundred times its size and ten times its age." - Historian Hiram M. Chittenden Deep in the heart of Blackfoot country on the Upper Missouri River, trade relations opened cautiously in 1831. A series of trading posts and clashes followed. By 1846, Fort Benton had become the center of commerce with Indigenous tribes, including the Blackfoot who dubbed it "many houses to the South." Drawing settlers from eastern states, the head of steamboat navigation became known as "the world's innermost port." As a result, the fort became a multicultural melting pot and home to the "Bloodiest Block in the West." Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life dramatic sagas of a rapidly developing frontier, from vigilante X. Beidler to the Marias and Ophir Massacres.
Birthplace of Montana
Author: John G. LepleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781575100685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Benton, Montana
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Mont.)Publisher:
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Category : Fort Benton (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Old Fort Benton, Montana
Author: Fort Benton
Author: Joel OverholserPublisher: Falcon PressPub Company
ISBN: 9780937959275
Category : Fort Benton (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book is a collection of Mr. Overholser's notes accumulated over his years of research and published as such.
Ordinances of the Town of Fort Benton,
Author: Fort Benton (Mont.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Benton (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country: On the Trail from Montana's Fort Benton to Canada's Fort Macleod
Author: Ken RobisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities. A cross-border trading bond arose with growing steamboat mercantile center Fort Benton in Montana Territory. In 1870, Montana traders Johnny Healy and Al Hamilton moved across the Medicine Line and built Fort Whoop-Up. It established the two-hundred-mile Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton, through Blackfoot lands, to the Belly River near today's Lethbridge. Over the next decade, the buffalo robe trade flourished with the Blackfoot, as did violence. The turmoil forced the creation of Canada's North West Mounted Police, tasked with closing down the whiskey trade and evicting the Montana traders. Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life this dramatic story.