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Fort Benton

Author: Ken Robison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738570280

Fort Benton, the head of navigation on the Missouri River, is known as the "Birthplace of Montana." Its history spans every era in Montana's development. Founded in 1846 as a fur-trading post, it is Montana's 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.

Historic Tales of Fort Benton

Author: Ken Robison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1439678685

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"...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.

Historic Tales of Fort Benton

Author: Ken Robison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-07

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467154873

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Missouri River, Fort Peck to Fort Benton

Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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Old Fort Benton, Montana

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 0

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Expedition from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Benton

Author: James Liberty Fisk

Publisher:

Published: 1863

Total Pages: 48

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Birthplace of Montana

Author: John G. Lepley

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781575100685

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Shep Forever Faithful

Author: Stewart H. Beveridge

Publisher: Stewart Beveridge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0615128548

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Fort Benton

Author: Joel Overholser

Publisher: Falcon PressPub Company

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9780937959275

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This book is a collection of Mr. Overholser's notes accumulated over his years of research and published as such.

Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country

Author: Ken Robison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020-10-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1439671389

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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.