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.
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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.
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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.
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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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