Free Range Barons of Old Range Days in Montana History
Theodore Roosevelt once served on the executive committee of the Montana Stockgrowers association. The article traces cattle and sheep arrivals in Montana from 1832 through the 1870s, notes key stockmen and forts such as Fort Union and Fort Benton, and highlights early exports, drives, and breed introductions shaping Montana’s livestock industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Heodore Roosevelt
United States
Kohrs
Bielenberg
Deer Lodge
John FF. “Bishop of
Dillon
Oregon
Robert Ford
Thomas Dunn
Sunriver
Powder River
Judith
Milk River
Musselshell
Blackfoot
Poindexter
Orr
Beaverhead County
State
Salt Lake
P. Largey
Butte
Chicago
Beilenberg
Ogden
Cheyenne
Union Pacific
Chine
Lone
Northern Pacific
Eastern Montana Stockgrowers Association
Miles City
Col. T. J. Bryan
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Granville Stewart
Theodore Roosevelt
Little Missouri
Montana Stockman
Charley Russell
Northwest
Maxmillian
North America
Prince Maxilian
Wied
Missouri
Horf&Pierre
South Dakota
American Fur Company
Ani
Fort Pierre
Fort Union
McKenzie
Upper
St. Louis
George Catlin
Catlin
Maximilian of
North Dakota
Montana Line
Montana-Dakota
Missouri River
John J. Audubon
Maring River
Fort McKenzie
Alexander Culbertson
Territories
Brule Bottom
Fort Benton
Marins
Father de Smet
Chittended
Richardson
Stevensville
Woody
Missoula
St. Mary’s Mission
Colville
Washington
Fort Colville
Washington Territory
Bitter Root Valley
John Palliser
London
Kipp
Joe Kipp
Fur Company
J. A. Vail
Gaddis
R. N. Sutherlin
Great Falls
D. J. Hogan
Augusta
Bronstein and Popper
Salt Lake City
Edward Creighton
Madison Valley
W. L. Frary
Alex Metzel
O. A. Sedman
Kentucky
St. Marys
N. Borchardt
Ing
Palliser
Henry A. Boller
Philadelphia
Boller
Union
the Marias
Culbertson
F. H. Woody
Neil McArthur
Hudson’s Bay
Conrad Kohrs
Free Range
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William Laidlaw
The
Yellowstone River
Fred H. Burr
Bitter Root
Territorial Auditor
John H. Ming
Thomas P. McElrath
Yellowstone Valley
Indian Affairs
Blackfeet Farm
Tongue River
Teddy Blue” Abbott
Texas Trail
Northern
Uein
Bayer
Poel Omy Orch
Bebeene
Lumbago