Winter of 1855 Indians and forts amid frontier Montana
The diary of James H. Chambers recounts a mild 1865 winter at Fort Sarpy with crowded crowds of Sioux and Crow conflicts, noting Indians living around the fort and scarce meals. It also covers Missoula sawmill plans and the tale of Hugh Glass, a frontier trapper mauled by a grizzly and later surviving with help and revenge in mind.
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Fort Sarpy
James H. Chambers
Montana
Montana Historical Library
Chambers
Prairies
Fort Benton
Glass Pursues Revenge Across Plains and Forts
The narrative traces Glass’s 1824 overland trek from Fort Henry to Fort Kiowa and Fort Atkinson after surviving ambushes by Arkaras and Grey Eyes. He loses rifle and plunder, but guards his knife and flint, finds buffalo food, and ultimately forgives the elder enemy at Atkinson, resuming trapping with a renewed outlook.
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Glass
Fort Kiowa
Missouri
Yellowstone
Mandan
James
James P
Art Caras
Leavenworth
Arkaras
Fort Henry
Fort Atkinson
Henry's
Powder River
Platte Valley
Platte
Grey Eyes
Glasa
The
Missouri Intelligencer
Glasg
Chittenden
Major Andrew Dawson first of the fur traders
Chronicle of Andrew Dawson a Scotsman who built Fort Benton’s trading post in the 1860s and led a perilous northwest life. Born 1817 in Dalkeith Scotland he earned the name Big Knife for carrying a sword and died in Scotland in 1871 from an injury from Fort Benton.
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Andrew Dawson
Montana
Dawson
Fort Benton
Northwest
Scotland
Missouri
James Dawson
Midvale
Glacier Park Station
Glacier National Park
Dalkeith
Edinburgh
Baldwin Locomotive Works
England
Liverpool
New Orleans
Mississippi
St. Louis
Pierre Chouteau & Company
Fort Laramie
Big Knife
Story of Hugh Glass Fur Trader and Bear Encounter
The narrative recounts early fur trade figures with Hugh Glass and Dawson. It details hostile encounters with Indians, Mountain Crows diplomacy, and a near ambush. It also covers Dawson’s rise to American Fur Company leadership at Fort Benton, a fatal fall, and his death in 1871 with three mixed heritage sons.
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Henry
Glass
Cooke
Fitzgerald
Joseph LaBarge
Jim Bridger
Prince Maximilian
Fort Cass
Yellowstone
Gardner
Maximilian
Hugh Glass
Grazing On Logged Off Western Montana Lands Opens Dairy Option
Reports from Libby Montana indicate ranchers are using logged off stump land in western districts for pastures. Cattle feed on seeded areas between stumps as stumps clear slowly. dairying expands with small dairy cow herds and poultry. A carload of dairy cows was sold to local farmers through the dairy loan association.
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Montana
Missoula
Libby
Dairy Loan Association
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Moritana-Idaho Company
Butte
Big Springs
Idaho
Yellowstone Park
Oregon Short Line
John Colter
John Nethardt
Nethart
Hfe
Pennsylvania
Old Glass
Grand River
Martha Edgerton Plassman
Governor Edgerton
Fort ‘Benton
Major Culbertson
Count Koskiesko
Count Kossuth
Fort Union
Major Andrew Dawson
Say
Bayer
American Fur Company
Carroll & Steel
Major Dawson
Andrew
Fort Clarke
Robert Morgan
Alexander
Thomas
Fosse
Pyradium Company
Helena, Montana
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