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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD0_fur-trade_Bozeman-MT.html
An abundance of beaver encouraged Corps of Discovery members John Colter and John Potts to return to the headwaters. In 1808, Blackfeet Indians killed Potts in a confrontation and stripped Colter bare, giving him a chance to run for his life. In o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCZ_first-people-in-the-gallatin-valley_Bozeman-MT.html
For centuries distant and diverse tribes visited the Gallatin Valley to hunt. They stampeded buffalo over cliffs during the "dog days" before the acquisition of horses and guns. They hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter. They also mined c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCX_lewis-and-clark_Bozeman-MT.html
Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery reached the headwaters of the Missouri River and named the three tributaries in July, 1805. With great difficulty the Corps of Discovery fought rapids and troublesome mosquitoes as they pulled their boats upstr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJAH_the-thomas-party_Greycliff-MT.html
In 1866 William Thomas, his son Charles, and a driver named Schultz left southern Illinois bound for the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Travelling by covered wagon they joined a prairie schooner outfit at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and started over the Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9U_captain-wm-clark_Greycliff-MT.html
You are now following the historic trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. On his return from the Pacific in July 1806, Captain Clark camped for six days about forty miles downstream, near Park City. The Expedition had been looking for timber sui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9T_the-crazy-mountains_Greycliff-MT.html
Called Awaxaawippiia by the Apsaalooka (Crow) Indians, the Crazy Mountains, which you can see to the northwest, are an igneous formation forged about 50 million years ago. For the Apsaalooka, they are the most sacred and revered mountains on the n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ9L_boothill-cemetery_Billings-MT.html
Named Boothill because so many of its occupants went to their deaths with their boots on, this cemetery was the burying ground for Coulson, Yellowstone River town existing from 1877-1885 on the edge of what was to be Billings. Most famous buried h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ6O_the-place-where-the-white-horse-went-down_Billings-MT.html
In 1837-38 a smallpox epidemic spread from the American Fur Trading Company steamboat St. Peter which had docked at Fort Union. The terrible disease for which the Indians had no immunity eventually affected all Montana tribes. A story is told amon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFUV_the-bob-marshall-wilderness-country_Ovando-MT.html
North of here lies the second largest wilderness in the lower 48 states. Made up of the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Great Bear wilderness areas, its north end abuts Glacier National Park, creating a continuous corridor of unspoiled mountains and v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAJ_companies-c-e_Garryowen-MT.html
The white markers on the knolls and in the ravines to the west and southwest show were the troopers of Co, C under Capt. Tom Custer and Co. E under Lt. Smith were found. The Indian encampment lay beyond on the flat across the river.