Fort Union, one of the largest and best known trading posts in the American West, was located on the Missouri near the mouth of the Yellowstone, about 14 miles southeast of here. Built in 1828, it was the headquarters for the American Fur Company’s . . . — — Map (db m142983) HM
These coal mine cars were used in the Jennison/Wix Mine from 1941 until it closed in 1959. This mine was the largest mine in the Girard Coal Field. The twelve foot thick coal vein produced a low quality lignite coal, which was sold for domestic use . . . — — Map (db m308783) HM
The Fort Union Formation was deposited not long after the dinosaur extinction, about 65 million years ago. Rivers originating in mountains to the west and south carried abundant sediment to the nearby shallow inland sea to the east, crossing the . . . — — Map (db m142979) HM
From little towns in a far land we came to our honor and a world aflame. By little towns in a far land we sleep and trust those things we won to you to keep. —Rudyard Kipling [left panel] Culbertson Earl Morrow WWI • . . . — — Map (db m308792) WM
Wherever you are in Montana, you stand in the pathway of Lewis and Clark. Their 1804-1806 expedition was a grand adventure to investigate the people and resources of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and to seek a navigable passage across the . . . — — Map (db m142981) HM
Fort Peck Indian Reservation is the home of two tribes, the Assiniboines, whose forefathers were living in this vicinity when Lewis and Clark came up the Missouri in 1805, and the Dakota (Sioux) descendants of the "hostiles" who fiercely . . . — — Map (db m142978) HM
Roll of Honor Indian Soldiers Who Died in Military Service Abbott, Sgt. Donald Ackerman, Pvt. Ray Archdale, S/Sgt. Percy J. Bauer, T/Sgt. Frederick (2) Bow, Pvt. Henry Connor, Pvt. Fred Crazy Bull, Pvt. Nathan (2) Dupree, Capt. . . . — — Map (db m203076) WM
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This location has long been an important river crossing. Buffalo herds used it for centuries. The Assiniboine named it "Crow Ford" because the Crow used it during their raiding campaign. Ferries operated at this location from . . . — — Map (db m142949) HM
The second in a series of Centennial Acres was donated in 1986 by Montana's First Lady, Jean Schwinden, and her brother Julius Christianson. Located where their immigrant parents, Nels and Amanda Christianson, settled in 1913, the site is . . . — — Map (db m202997) HM
The Wolf Point Bridge was the result of many years of lobbying by Roosevelt and McCone county citizens led by Wolf Point businessman William Young. In 1927, the Montana Highway Commission and Bureau of Public Roads approved the project. The . . . — — Map (db m142977) HM
The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by here, westward bound, in May, 1805. Fur trappers and traders followed them a few years later. Steamboats began making it from St. Louis up the Missouri as far as Fort Benton in the early 1860s. Wolf Point was . . . — — Map (db m142947) HM
