Fort Benton
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ZenPanda
N 47° 50.375 W 110° 41.116
12T E 523550 N 5298518
The history of the river town of Fort Benton.
Waymark Code: WM2B64
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2007
Views: 45
Captain Clark with members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on the site of Ft. Benton June4, 1805.
Originally a trading post of the American Fur Co. it became head of navigation on the Missouri with the arrival of the first steamboat from St. Louis in 1859. She boomed in the early 60s as a point of entry to the newly discovered placer mines o western Montana. Supplies were freighted out by means of ox teams and profanity.
An early observer states, "Perhaps nowhere else were ever seen motlier crowds of daubed and feathered Indians. Buckskin-arrayed half-breed nobility, moccasined trappers, voyagers, gold seekers and bull drivers... on the opening of the boating season..."
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