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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.
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
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.
Loma is located in central Chouteau County at the confluence of the Marias and Missouri rivers. U.S. Route 87 passes through the community, leading southwest 10 miles (16 km) to Fort Benton, the Chouteau County seat, and northeast 60 miles (97 km) to Havre.
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At the start of the 19th century, the North American fur trade was expanding toward present-day Montana from two directions. Representatives of British and Canadian fur trade companies, primarily the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, pushed west and south from their stronghold on the Saskatchewan River, while American trappers and traders followed the trail of the Lewis and ...