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Diary Chronicles Early Montana Survey From Fort Benton
James Doty and companions conducted an 1854 survey from Fort Benton along the Missouri toward the Rockies. The diary records Great Falls, Crown Butte, Marias and Cut Bank passes, plant and animal observations, and notes on bears, beaver dams, and Native names. The expedition mapped Sun River sources and demonstrated four men could travel 41 days in Blackfeet country without loss of horses or scalps.
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Montana
W. H. Allen & Co
Waterloo Place
London
England
Gallatin Valley
West
Stone Coates
New York
Chicago
Rocky Mountains
St. Paul
Dickerson
N. C
Minguesville
Yellowstone Valley
Bozeman
I. R
Bozeman End
Gallatin Vally
Moreland
James Doty
Fort Benton
Doty
Hugh Monroe
Henry Roaster
Benjamin Lint
Missouri
Big Coulee
Great Falls of the Missouri
Great Falls
Niagara
Plains
Civilization
Nah-too-see
Medicine
Sun River
Crown Butte
The
Big Knee
Dians
Blackfoot Pass
Lewis and Clark Pass
Highwood Mountains
Elk Fork
Sunriver
Beaver Dam Creek
Birch River
Cottonwood Fork
Marias River
Bear River
Rocky Fork
Marias
Cut Bank
Chief Mountain Lake
Roan
Edmonton House
Hudson’s Bay Company
Saskatchewan River
Bow Lake
Saskatchewan
Cut Bank River
Marias Pass
United States
Tinkham
Cut Bank Pass
Breast River
Milk River
Belly River
Blackfeet