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Joseph Culbertson Lears Of His Father Fort Benton Builder
Joseph Culbertson recounts his father Alexander Culbertson’s role in early Montana trade. He describes Fort McKenzie on the Marias river, Fort Piegan, Fort Union, and Fort Benton, battles with Blackfeet and Crows, the Blackfeet trade system, and life along the upper Missouri from 1830s to 1840s, including siege, smallpox, and river journeys.
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Joseph Culbertson
Fort Benton
Montana
Missouri River
Poplar
Missouri
Alexander Culbertson
Nebraska
West
Upper
Marias River
Fort McKenzie
Great American Fur Company
White Feather
Milk River
Black Catfish
Black Horn
Hinsdale
Feather
Beaver Creek
White
Larb Creek
Bill
Yellowstone
Poplar Creek
Malta
Assinniboines
Gros Ventres
Bull Eagle
Joe Kipp
Brownuing
Fort Union
Yellowstone River
Fort Piegan
Marins
American Fur Company
Blackfeet
McKenzie
David Mitchell
Ft. Union
Mitchell
Brule Bottom
St. Louis
Kenneth McKenzie
Prince Maximilian
Coblenz
Rhine
Marias
Rotten Belly
Gabrielle Benoist
Fort Belknap
Chardon
The
Judith
Fort Lewis
Crows