Show famous forts in U S history by B ELMO SCOTT IN ublia the fort that WM wag built by Tender tenderfoot feet just jart when adien the th it terni bend tenderfoot fooht we best used ed in 1 unknown it rut but it ft 1 pretty certain that tbt it could be ht I 1 been applied to nathaniel J wyeth of boston rack back in 1832 he decided that arabia ulmon ion I on it fishery hery could be am a an the columbia river rival 1 IB the pacific northwest to be oper abed led in connection with the fur old tinned isted a croup of if now ew englanders KoK landen 1 la hr him enterprise and ad west not one a of erf the pont party led had ever been an in fidfl fin indian fl handled a rifle nor bad the faintest idea of fortunately for them at independence ce mo life they tell I 1 in with two veteran of atie io ed plains ber capt C mp bleil william tu sublette sublet cju te rod and ine robert t campbell Cem partner r W rs in the rocky mountain fur company who were bound tor fm the annual iranian trap pera made at hole gale far to up la A and traveling with them the file e tel ris learned earned their file farsi 1 lea ajr jon a I 1 in t the frontier a hard school the then to followed 1 I owed several mooch months of if exciting adventure and despite the loss of several men in fight with the th fiercest BI kafet indiana indian and the ell de section ot of others ath pushed on with 11 men into the snake river country and ad dually fi fly in I 1 october 0 toiler 1833 1 s reached ry t ort E vancouver the hud bud with abut BOH am 5 bay company pout past on the colum him bla here her most of hla him me men dc deserted ted h him but undaunted the leader ac compan compa companies companied started nied A by biml two of his hl foil follow after era am started on the back track after all another a lute ree flous journey he be rear reached d st lour to in safety and ad oga organized hed the columbia Colm abd JR river iter fishing and company th then he be set met out again and in the bummer of 1834 built a fort in what Is nor no idaho on an the left hank bank of the sonke duke river tie above the it mouth a all of if ill awl ab nb portneuf Port neuf it wa finished I 1 shed I 1 on august 61 6 1834 and named port pon hall ball in no hon or 1 ot of henry ball the oldest partner in the company he etc raised over it ft a flag ali rhems made of f unbleached edi tell beella a lit little red nd fin flannel net and a few w blue a patches 6 a with damaged powder P and wet in villainous liquor and ad rho has the american our flax we was or first il unfurled over or that pact of the great wilderness of the pest in 1836 eveth sold rort fort hall t to A e Flud hudson 9 bay coro panr in ill atit d n ot if the il geat g eat over tin it orton ormon trail it was an imports important at pool since it marked the place where re many Y emiera emigrants i a turned off to seek their t it fort tort 1 unea I t in the gold field fielda a of california and to in the 70 a it played a loading lending part pact in th the BU bannock it and d eared f ajmo plot plate war not but the greatest fame of port fort hall tire lies in its ite early matur history y ola when it ft wa waa athe the living of ell the e indomitable courage of nathaniel J in honor of the great agate western re n expansionist ni when the fur far trade died to la the creat west ant there died with it ED mimi CX of ii the posts which had been the cen term of this industry one notable table ex notion was wag fort beat banton I 1 ta montana mom built in 1844 by alexander C calbert lbert mout on of the american fur company it we waa originally named fort leads I 1 eweg in labor honor of fedir ther lewis lewi the ex in 1848 1816 ills aln post wait waa moved to the head of navigation all v the mis ills morl bourl rebuilt with adobe and ad a on bhrim day dedicated amid great festivities to KB a f b ort art benton beacon tints humn honor ing thomas hart bottom the great fro waste western ime and a trusted wend of the A F 0 IB its III seat period fort beagan ranked with ran fort union in north do da kot kota as a fur far center ire and ad later it la be w came ill the maln enter center of trade in buffalo bobea be who when fort union wow was abandoned the tact fact that but fr from 20 to GO buffa buffalo 0 robes cable w bew wew shipped from fort beat benton eccli all vi veir tells briefly why the buffalo vanished t the northern plot plains th the greatest glory of rort fort benton bento came a about the year ISN 1806 when the tie red cloud war stopped the ali of mancra a to to the new slid gold fields field I 1 in ain uon tons tana over ave the be bozeman I 1 man trall trail they wore were tole forced to tall full back k upon the we wa W ter route the river before 1868 cot more thus than W six at steamers sr r rived at benton beaden gamm annually 11 ton but in that year the number leaped to 31 and ad from then until ISM 1869 the number of me ar CI 15 constantly kiy cocle locle increased d pon fort benton became ties the principal deporting departing point for fee tie the diggins diggings and DO less than wagons gathered there them each year jual to make the long held haul of implies Bupp liea sometimes as much am aa 5 too toon a year to the told gold campal from to 50 miles away in thew thene teara there we was no in more plum picturesque ne pi place 1 la th the than fort benon 0 miners mine f fron all I 1 parts of f tha b land d ex o soldiers idle trim both the leloo and ad COB can feli federate crom arrouet arrode fur tro traders oders hunten bounce trapp cra aa bood me meo and ad bud bad they all 11 COma made ad tip to ill the hatly shining shifting pop E vt of him W WL port L in SW the mie go ament established m m military 1 ri past there and la ED 1877 pur par I 1 b the be ave cheral fur company vs i old tort ton but bu ROOD abandoned donad it V M hen ara it ali great northern e railroad tie old pushed into 11 klod tana it port fail beat benton enned ad rapidly ill today day there remains I 1 only 1 few anal crumbling bilm all it of what the I 1 flaw emerson rime mouth hough oure once characterized am the kimt let famous gamoua rod and C most I 1 acee MU mo or of 11 II 11 the or hi start posts as 00 ek tj 1 knew sL |