First Montana fur company and expedition epic
The Missouri Fur Company, Montana's first business organization, formed in 1808 in St. Louis with ten partners including Pierre Chouteau and Manuel Lisa. They planned an expedition up the Missouri and Mississippi rivers toward Three Forks, with hardship, desertion, and the eventual Fort Manuel site established in 1810 at Three Forks in Gallatin county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Missouri Fur Company
St. Louis
Missouri River
Pierre Chouteau
Chouteau County
Choteau
Teton County
Manuel Lisa
Auguste Pierre Chouteu
Reuben Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Benjamin Wilkinson
Sylvester Labbadie
Pierre’ Menard
William Morrison
Andrew Henry
Lewis and Clark
Missouri
Three Forks
Gallatin County
Fort Manuel
Lisa
Pierre Menard
Dougherty
Manuel
Big Horn
John Colter
Colter
Gallatin River
The
Gallatin City
Jefferson
Madison Rivers
Brown
Ware
James
Great Falls
Ghost City Gaylord and the Parrot smelter saga in Montana
The article recounts the rise and fall of Gaylord built around the Parrot smelter near Piedmont Montana. It details the Amalgamated merger ending Gaylord’s boom, the ensuing abandonment of the townsite, and the demolished smelter stack that once dominated the Jefferson valley. It also profiles John Dougherty a Missouri River Fur Company American trapped with Lewis and Clark era explorers.
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Montana
Cokedale
A. J. Holter
Joe Davis
Helena
J. E. Gaylord
Mark Twain
Mr. Gaylord
Parrot
Butte
Gaylord
Piedmont
Milwaukee
Three Forks
Whitehall
Anaconda
Jefferson Valley
Anaconda Company
Boston & Montana
Great Falls
Gaylord Smelter
Jefferson Valley Sky Line
Parrot Company
The
Amalgamated
Li Mving
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Memoir of Jake DeHart and early Missouri fur trade tales
The piece recalls Jake DeHart a famed southeastern Montana sheriff and elk rancher, and traces the Dougherty Colter expedition from Three Forks to Fort Manuel, detailing beaver trapping, battles with Blackfeet, fort life, and Dougherty’s later role as an Indian agent until his death in 1861.
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Jake DeHart
Montana
Lewis and Clark County
Lewis and Clark
Old Sweetgrass County
Big Timber
Helena
Jake
Sweetgrass County
Bozeman
DeHart
Sweet Grass County
Dougherty
Jefferson
James Cheek
Lisa
George Drouillard
Henry
Columbia River
Yellowstone River
Columbia
St. Louis
Missouri
Rockies
Ort Leavenworth
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Fort Union
Liberty
Limit on Loans to Curb Land Speculation Instituted
The federal farm loan board imposes limits in all farm loan banks to curb land speculation. Loans will be refused for applications that do not protect banks and bond buyers, with a general cap of over $100 per acre, even where sale prices reach $250 to $400 per acre. The report notes a large European population share.
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Federal Farm Loan Board
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EY Sige
F.- Peets Dougherty
JOETE
U. S
Whitehhall
John Dougherty
Rocky Mountains
Northwest
Missouri River Fur Company
Big Horn River
Yellowstone
Hsau
Mississippi
Platte River
Mandan
Dakota
Hudson Bay
Gros Ventres
Blackfeet
Missouriur Company
Upper
Forest Hancock
Joseph Dickson
Pacific
Cheek
City of Three Forks
Europe
Postum Cereal Co
Battle Creek, Mich
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