This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
My Father Alexander Culbertson and Fort McKenzie Era
Joseph Culbertson recalls his father Alexander Culbertson a famed trader and interpreter on the Upper Missouri. He describes Fort McKenzie Fort Benton Fort Union and the Blackfeet trade era detailing sieges battles smallpox and shifting fortune in Montana fur trade before the old days fade into history.
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Montana
Missouri River
Poplar
Missouri
Alexander Culbertson
Nebraska
West
Upper Missouri
Old West
Fort ‘Benton
Blackfeet
Marias River
Fort McKenzie
Northwest
Great American Fur Company
White Feather
Milk River
Black Catfish
Black Horn
Hinsdale
Beaver Creek
Lark Creek
Larb Creek
Sitting Bull
Yellowstone
Poplar Creek
Malta
Gros Ventres
Bull Eagle
Upper
Joseph Culbertson
Fort Belknap
King’ Culbertson
Fort Union
Yellowstone River
Fort Piegan
Marins
American Fur Company
McKenzie
St. Louis
Kenneth McKenzie
Mitchell
Prince Maximilian
Coblenz
Rhine
Marias
Assinniboines
Long Hair
Rotten Belly
Gabrielle Benoist
Fort Mcenzie
Fort Laramie
Laramie
Platter
Chardon
The
Judith
Fort Benton
Fort Lewis
Crows
Horace Ensign
Helena
Salt Lake City
Ensign
Little Rock
Ark