On Broadway (U.S. 87) at Johannas Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway.
Fifty-five to thirty-four million years ago, volcanoes erupted in several areas of central Montana. The upwelling of magma which fed these volcanoes was largely responsible for the Bears Paw Uplift and for several other isolated mountain ranges in . . . — — Map (db m142530) HM
On Broadway (U.S. 87) at McNamara Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway.
According to legend, the town and the creek got their name from the muleskinner "Big Sandy" Lane. The creek was flooded during one of his long treks from Cow Island to Fort Benton. When "Big Sandy" fluently bewailed his bad luck in superlatives . . . — — Map (db m142531) HM
On Judith Landing Road (State Highway 236), on the left when traveling south.
July 10, 1866 - March 31, 1870
Near this spot soldiers of the 13th Infantry of the U.S. Army built the first permanent Army post in the Montana Territory, where the Judith and Missouri Rivers join together. — — Map (db m161911) HM
On Broadway (U.S. 87) at McNamara Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway.
Freight was unloaded at Cow Island when water dropped so low that steamboats could not travers the upper river to Fort Benton. For 130 miles the Cow Island Trail wound along the southern foothills of the Bear's Paw to the junction at Big Sandy then . . . — — Map (db m142562) HM
On Judith Landing Road (State Highway 236), on the right when traveling south.
In the spring of 1844, American Fur Company traders, Francis Chardon and Alexander Harvey constructed a trading post near here. Chardon had a reputation as an able and unscrupulous individual, while Harvey was "one of the most abandoned desperados . . . — — Map (db m161839) HM
On Broadway (U.S. 87) at McNamara Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway.
Another wagon road headed northeast from Fort Bento to the Cypress Hills and Medicine Hat, Alberta. It passed through Big Sandy, on north near Havre and into the Cypress Hills. In 1873 Fort Benton whiskey traders massacred Indians in the Cypress . . . — — Map (db m142558) HM
On Broadway (U.S. 87) at McNamara Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway.
The road to the southeast leads to the mouth of the Judith River. An early fur post, Fort Chardon was built there in 1844. In 1866 Camp Cooke, the first miliary (sic) post in Montana, was constructed of cottonwood logs, and endured four years of . . . — — Map (db m142559) HM
Like much of Montana, the lands of the Wortman Ranch still look largely as they did even before the days of Lewis and Clark. Except for the irrigated farmland next to the river, the landscapes here haven't changed in character or appearance for . . . — — Map (db m161903) HM
Gaze out over the lands around you and imagine them filled with 2,000 tidies and 15,000 Indians-it has happened at least twice. Here, enormous gatherings were called to negotiate treaties that transformed relations between Indian tribes and opened . . . — — Map (db m161905) HM
Near Judith Landing Road (State Highway 236), on the left when traveling south.
You stand now in an area that was one of the first to feel the rapid growth of immigration that began about 60 years after Lewis and Clark camped here. Steamboats in the late 1800s chose this area as a key stopping point, because the trees needed . . . — — Map (db m161840) HM
On Judith Landing Road (State Highway 236), on the right when traveling south.
In 1855, geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden explored the upper Missouri River for the United States Geologic Service. At that time, the area was the hunting grounds of the Lakota, Blackfeet, Atsina, and River Crow Indians. A lone white man in Indian . . . — — Map (db m161838) HM
Near Judith Landing Road (State Highway 236), on the right when traveling south.
Once home to grazing dinosaurs, the lands surrounding you still exhibit the qualities that have mad the Judith Landing area an important crossroads thought human history. Here, at the confluence of two rivers, trees grow more densely than elsewhere . . . — — Map (db m161936) HM
