First Fur Trading Posts Opened in Montana Territory
In the early 1800s, Francois Larocque and Manuel Lisa shaped Montana’s fur trade. Larocque’s party traded with Crows and moved west after US restrictions, while Lisa founded Fort Remon on the Big Horn in 1807. David Thompson emerged later as a pioneering surveyor and explorer of the Canadian west and Montana region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis and Clark
Mandan
Francois Antoine Larocque
Bourgeois
Northwest Company of Canada
Larocque
Lewis
Montana
United States
Missouri Fur Co
St. Louis
Manuel Lisa
Lisa
Fort
Remon
Fort Manuel
The
Big Horn
George Drouillard
John Colter
Sergeant Potts
Missouri
Verendrye
David Thompson
England
Northwest
Thompson
Hudson’s Bay Co
Canada
Canadian
Paul C. Phillips
Montana State University
Department of History
Journal of John Work
Hudson's Bay Co
Northwest Company
Rockies
Columbia
Kootenai River
Thompson Falls
Fine Meadow
Tobacco River
Howse
Flathead Lake
Salish House
Mount Jumbo
Missoula
Hell Gate River
Longeuil
Que
Mountains
Yellowstone
Potts
Colter
Three Forks
Lisa’s
Yellowstone National Park
Pierre Menard
Andrew Henry
Gallatin
Beaver
Menard
Hoostey
Amon
Secon
Hunt
Grand River
Little Missouri
Big Horn Range
Edward Rose
James Kwourth
Flathead Country
Ross Cox
New York
Astoria
Cox
Jediah S. Smith
New Yorker
William L
Milton G. Sublette
Solomon P. Andrew
David F. Jackson
James Bridger
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Robert Campbell
Rocky Mountain Company
Assinniboines
Henry
Great Falls
Blackfeet
Ashley
Smith
Jim Bridger
Big Horn Canyon
Ghattenden
Rocky Mountain Fur Co
Rocky Mountain
Far West
del Lisa
O. C. Seltzer
Dillon Hosts Biennial Montana Federation of Women's Clubs
Montana State Normal college and the Dillon Shakespeare club host the Montana Federation of Women's Clubs biennial convention in Dillon from June 6 to 8. Delegates from 138 federated groups attend as Dr. B. E. Davis and Miss Lucy Carson welcome them. Highlights include district dinners, keynote by Prof. Rush Jordan on The Price of Democracy, and a Jubilee banquet marking the federation’s 50th anniversary with a pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State Normal College
Dillon Shakespeare Club
Montana Federation of Women’s Clubs
Dillon
H. S. Mussighrod
Widom
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Golden Memories
Federation
Howard A. Johnson
Helena
Montana Supreme Court
Jacob W. Forbes
E. G. Free
F. Walker
Great Falls
Lincoln J. Aikens
Biligs
Terrill
State Sanitarium
Galen
Ae A
Canadian Artist Paul Kane Traced Northwest Frontier
Canadian artist Paul Kane journeyed from eastern Canada to the Pacific and back between 1846 and 1850, creating hundreds of sketches and paintings of Northwest tribes including the Blackfeet. His journal, published in 1859, recounts encounters with traders, natives, and Hudsons Bay posts, with figures such as Casanov of the Chinook and the American Fur Co. stories across Fort Union Fort Benton and Fort McKenzie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Taylor
George Catlin
Northwest
Paul Kane
Canada
Pacific Coast
England
Kane
Canadian National Gallery
Ottawa
Toronto
National Gallery
London
Hudson’s, Bay Co
Scotland
Ireland
Russia
Hudson's Bay Co
Hawaii
Sandwich Islands
Pacific Islands
Casanov
Casanova
American Fur Co
Montana
John Jacob Astor
St. Louis
Pierre Chouteau
Barnard Pratt
Northwest Company
Kenneth McKenzie
Missouri
Fort Union
Bainville
McKenzie
Chittenden
Yellowstone
Pierre Chouteau Jr
Prince Maxmilian
Wied-Neuwiled
Rocky Mountains
Fort McKenzie
Bodmer
Maximilian
Upper
Pari
Mario Clark
Prickly Pear Valley
Culbertson
Fort Benton
Thomas H. Benton
United States
Andrew Dawson
Ank
Musselshell
Fort Andrew
Dawson
Milk River
University Summer Schedule Reveals Four Montana Confabs
Four extra curricular conferences for Montana State University 1940 summer session announced by Dr. G D Shallenberger attract educators from across the state. Payne Templeton Helena education leader will head English conference June 24 to 27 with national experts. Ralph Y McGinnis will direct speech July 1 to 3 following a successful prior year. W R Ames directs education problems July 10 to 12 as principals and superintendents participate. John Crowder leads music educators July 1 to 3 with a separate high school music program June 10 to July 3 enrolling over a hundred students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State University
G. D. Shallenberger
Montana
Payne Templeton
Helena
Ralph Y. McGinnis
W. R. Ames
Women's Relief Corps Honors One of Montana's Last G A R Men
Maj John Edwards of Bozeman, one of Montana's only two surviving G A R members, was guest of honor at the opening of the 14th annual convention of the Women's Relief Corps of Montana in Hamilton. National president Mrs Elsie Carroll of Lisbon North Carolina and past department president Mrs Ben Zieseneer from Olympia Washington attended with about 100 women from Hamilton Missoula Kalispell Great Falls Butte Livingston and Bozeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Edwards
Bozeman
Montana
Women’s Relief Corps of Montana
Hamilton
Elsie Carroll
Lisbon
N. C
Ben Zieseneer
Alaska
Washington
Olympia
Wash
Missoula
Kalispell
Great Falls
Butte
Livingston
Billings Youth Becomes First CCC Farm Enrollee in Flathead Valley
Richard T. Carey, 22, of Billings, the first Fort Missoula CCC enrollees to acquire a farm under the new program, will operate an 80 acre Flathead Valley tract after training at Alberton Experimental Farm. He will learn irrigation, hay and grain production, soil improvement, machinery care, animal husbandry, and marketing. Educational Supervisor Leslie R. Stephens notes Carey as a promising example for future enrollees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberton Experimental Farm
Flathead Valley
Fort Missoula
Civilian Conservation Corps
Richard T. Carey
Flathe Valley
Alberton
Billings
Emrplice Carey
CCC
Carey
Flathead
Leslie R. Stephens
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America
Sidney Greenbie
State Federation
Normal College
Rash Jordan
Pacific, Northwest
Hudson’s Bay Companies
Northwesters
Ross
Hell Gate Canyon
Deer Lodge
Winnipeg
William H. Ashley
Habit
Women’s Relief Corps
State
Pioneer
Toyo Linoleum Manufacturing Co., Ltd
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