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The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river.
The William K. Kohrs Memorial Library is modeled after the Carnegie Libraries. As of 2012, it is "the only dedicated public library in Powell County." [3] The home ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana, was held by the family until 1972, when his grandson sold it to the National Park Service. It is now the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. [4]
Deer Lodge is also the location of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era. This site was the home of Conrad Kohrs, one of the famous "Cattle Kings" of Montana whose land holdings once stretched over a million acres (4,000 km 2) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada.
This was when Conrad Kohrs purchased a ranch from Johnny Grant that is now called the Grant-Kohrs Ranch, [17] a National Historic Site and Federal Park. For a history of the river and the people, see Grant-Kohrs family and history of Clark Fork River region. The Clark Fork and the Blackfoot River experienced a record flood in 1908. [18]
John Grant, the original owner of the ranch, from 1853, is sometimes credited with founding the range-cattle industry in Montana. Conrad Kohrs, who bought the ranch c.1866, was among the foremost "cattle kings" of his era. [9] 12: Great Falls Portage: Great Falls Portage: May 23, 1966 : Great Falls
Northwest of Avon. 46°47′19″N 112°46′38″W / 46.788611°N 112.777222°W / 46.788611; -112.777222 (Fitzpatrick Ranch Historic District) Avon. 8. Grant-Kohrs Ranch/Warren Ranch. Grant-Kohrs Ranch/Warren Ranch. July 11, 2003. (#03000127) Cattle Drive at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Deer Lodge, MT, date unknown Cattle ranching has long been central to Montana's history and economy. Cattle ranching came early to Montana with the entrepreneurship of Johnny Grant in the Deer Lodge Valley in the late 1850s, who traded fat cattle to settlers in exchange for two trail-worn (but otherwise ...
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