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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 23, 2021
Caption: Indians, Explorers & Cowboys Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) Located over there first hill to the west, this barn was originally built for a dairy that operated here in the early 1900s. The railroad stopped pick up milk for delivery to "resorts" in Yellowstone National Park; (panorama across the bottom, L to R) Yellowstone River ("Elk River to the Crow Tribe)., Area where Captain Clark and crew camped July, 15, 1806., The bloody Bozeman Trail used by fortune-hunters throughout the frontier era, came across this side of Sheep Mountain, which the Crow Tribe named after their word for "flesher," the tool people used to scrape bits of flesh off dear and buffalo hides., Site of Fort Parker and the original Crow Agency, 1868-1875 (corner posts mark its location)., Mission Creek (bottom of trees) the Crow called it "Where There Is A Fork In The Coulee"., Mission Ranch Bed & Breakfast (behind trees), operating since 2002.
Submitted: March 10, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p642484
File Size: 3.232 Megabytes

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