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Big Timber Pioneer

Location

Big Timber, Montana, United States of America

Date

May 03, 1934

Page

7

Old Fort Assinniboine the Largest Montana Outpost

The story recounts Fort Assinniboine as Montana’s largest military post, its 1879 establishment, location near Beaver Creek and Milk River, and later abandonment. It notes Charles Broadwater freighted supplies to the northern camp for years and that the site was transferred to the state for an agricultural school, yet funding remained unrealized.

Story Old Fort Assinniboine Montana Charles Broadwater Northern Camp Territory of Fort Assinniboine War Department Havre Old Fort Assinniboine International Boundary Line Yellowstone John R. Brooke Cuba Military Department of the East Governor's Island Third Infantry Ruger 18Th Cavalry Georgia Milk River Bismarck Missouri Beaver Creek Montana Central Railroad Bear Paw Range Brooke Fort Benton American Fur Company Congress New Post D. W. Buck R. L. McCulloh L. K. Devlin W. C. Broadwater W. B. Ferguson Will Broadwater John Ogle Morris Manley Low Riel Canadian Northwest Territory Northwest 20Th Infantry 18Th Infantry First Cavalry Elmer S. Otis Philippines Telegraph Little Poplar Otis James Ward Washington Woodruff Anthropological Society of Washington Belknap Bear Paw Mountains Boundary Line South Dakota Pine Ridge Fort Peck Phillippines Az-ne-boyn Assina Assini Assine Asia

Fort Assinniboine Fort Peck Line Opened and Pontoon Start

Fort Assinniboine and Fort Peck figures figure in a detailed history with construction costs brick walls kilns and river transport. Colonel Lee and Colonel Broadwater led early work and local traders built a vast post economy before 1892.

Missouri Lee Fort Assinniboine Broadwater Fort Benton Broadwater, McCulloh & Co

Great Figures of the Overland Stage and Its Demise

The article reviews Butterfield Russell Majors and Waddell and Ben Holladay as the era’s great overland stage figures. It notes the telegraph ending the pony express in autumn 1861 and the rise of railroads, while recounting dangers, road agents, and brutal hardships of stage travel across Montana and the West.

Butterfield Russell Majors Waddell Ben Holladay Plains Overland Stage James L. Fiske Minnesota Montana Henry Villard E. P. Paxson Holladay America Central Overland Upper California Oregon Idaho Washington Pacific Wells, Fargo & Company Union and Central Pacific Railway Alder Gulch A. J. Oliver Bannack Salt Lake City Montana Post Virginia City Smith Gallatin Oliver’s Helena East Salt Lake W. F. Sanders

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