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Fort Mackenzie was established in Sheridan in 1898 as a U.S. Army outpost in northern Wyoming.It was named for Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie (1840 – 1889), a veteran of the Powder River Expedition who defeated Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife near the Big Horn Mountains in the Dull Knife Fight of 1876.
Potts was born in or before 1840 [4] near Fort McKenzie, Montana. He was the only child of his Kainai - Cree [ 5 ] mother, Namo-pisi (Crooked Back), and Andrew R. Potts, a Scottish fur trader . Upon the death of his father in 1840, Jerry was given to American Fur Company trader Alexander Harvey by Namo-pisi prior to rejoining her tribe.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a partial reconstruction of the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River from 1829 to 1867. The fort site is about two miles from the confluence of the Missouri River and its tributary, the Yellowstone River, on the Dakota side of the North Dakota/Montana border, 25 miles from Williston, North Dakota.
After reaching Fort Union, his boss, Kenneth McKenzie, assigned him to Fort McKenzie, in present-day Montana. Three weeks after he arrived, he married a Piegan woman, whose name was not recorded. It is unclear how long this first marriage lasted. He became Bourgeois (Manager) of the Fort in 1834. [5] Culbertson came back to Fort Union in 1840.
Later, a longboat was sent to Fort McKenzie via the Marias River. At Fort McKenzie the disease spread among the Blackfoot people housed there. The epidemic continued to spread into the Great Plains, killing many thousands between 1837 and 1840.
The Blackfeet laid siege to the fort, and inhabitants quickly abandoned the site. The next year, the American Fur Company established another trading post, Fort McKenzie, a few miles upstream of the old site. [4] During the 1860s, businessmen built a townsite near the confluence of the Marias and the Missouri rivers, called Ophir.
At the Missouri, right east of the Montana – North Dakota border: Right east of Roosevelt: American Fur Company: 1828–1867 [7]: 15 The Assiniboine and Cree: National Park Service Area Fort Van Buren [3]: 114 Fort Tulloch, Fort Tullock and Tulloch's Fort [5]: 965 At the Yellowstone, 10 miles east of Forsyth: Rosebud: American Fur Company
Fort Fizzle (historical), Missoula County, Montana, el. 3,383 feet (1,031 m) [31] Fort Fizzle is a wooden barricade on the Lolo Trail erected by Missoula volunteers to stop the advance of Chief Joseph during the Nez Perce War in 1877. The barricade failed when the Nez Perce climbed a steep ravine behind the ridge and bypassed the soldiers.