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Fort Union Riot and Tragedy at Old Fort Union Fort William
The article recalls Old Fort Union on the upper Missouri where the Deschamps and Rems half breed families led a series of feuds ending in a siege and slaughter. It recounts conspiracies a murder of Governor Semple and a brutal battle at Fort Union with eight deaths amidst a landscape of lawless frontier life.
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Old Fort Union
Missouri River
Montana,North Dakota
Fort Union
Montana
North Dakota
Plains
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountains
Glacier Nation] Park
Berthold Reservation
Standing Rock
North
South Dakota
Fort Totten
United States Board of Indian Commissioners
Lawrence J. Burpee
Western Sea
Northwest
Agnes C. Laur
Northwestern
T. C. Elliott
Portland
Ore
John C. Stevens
New York
Lawrence F. Abbott
Charles H. Carey
Oregon
Charles M. Russell
Great Falls
Solon J. Buck
Minnesota Historical Society
Lewis F. Crawford
O. G. Libby
North Dakota Historical Society
David Hilger
Historical Society of Montana
Doane C. Robinson
South Dakota Department of History
Stella M. Drumm
Missouri Historical Society
Charles 8. Paine
Mississippi Valley Historical Society
James Willard Schultz
Glacier Park Reservation
Sorlie
Erickson
Hugh L. Scott
United States
General Scott
American Legion
Prairies
Jack Rem
Deschamps
Lafferrier
Francois
Larpenteur
Gardepied
Fort William
Semple
Red River
Francois Deschamps
Missouri
Canada
Upper
Rems
Hamilton
Archibald Palmer
Charles Larpenteur
Kenneth McKenzie
Baptiste Gardepied
Francois Deschamps, Jr
Dechamps
A Deschamps
Fort
Blackfeet
Old Jack Rems
Mr. McKenzie
McKenzie
St. Louis
Marseillais
California
Indiana
American Fur Company