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Frontier yarn of Heaney Healey and Hamilton trading post
Old Irishman Pat Heaney tells how 1869–1870 together with Al Hamilton and John Healey they built Fort Healey on Belly river St Mary's forks and fed Blood Indians before a Piegan war party led by Cut Hand approached, risking a shootout between Bloods and Piegens and white traders.
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Montana
State
Pat Heaney
Canada
Montana Line
Heaney
Crondelet Barracks
St. Louis
Idaho
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Laramie
Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Gallatin City
Missouri
Northwest Territories of Canada
Sun River
Belly River
St. Mary’s River
Fort Healey
Old Hooper
Marias River
Cut Hand
Healey
Hamilton
Healey, Hamilton and Heaney
Eugene M. Baker
Cutland
Hugh Kirkendall
Jose
Bull
Marias