Historical Fort Benton

The history of Fort Benton, head of navigation on the Upper Missouri, spans every era of Montana history! All photos and writing are copyright Ken Robison. "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges. John Muir on Glacier Park: "Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal."*

21 June 2009

The Fort Benton Legend of General Thomas Francis Meagher

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By Ken Robison This continues the series of frontier sketches by historians at the Joel F. Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Ben...

Obituary: General Thomas Francis Meagher

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[Thomas Francis Meagher drowned in the Missouri River at Fort Benton July 1, 1867, 142 years ago. Just as Fort Benton will finally have a co...
13 April 2009

The Battle of Cow Island

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[In this article the Irish story-teller Michael Foley relates his experiences at Cow Island in late September 1877, when the Nez Perces ford...

Charlie Russell Is The Bloomin' Hero

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New Play By A Former Great Falls Man, The Scene of Which Is Laid in Montana and Charley Russell Is the hero--It Will Shortly Be Produced. [N...
15 December 2008

John L. Clarke's First Oil Painting

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Real Oil Painting by Indian Louis W. Hill Discovers Red Man Artist in Glacier National Park. [The talent of John L. Clarke, grandson of pion...
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The Falls of the Missouri and The Birth of Great Falls

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by Ken Robison [Partially adapted from the writings of Martha Edgerton Rolfe, Great Falls’ first woman settler] We take for granted and un...
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Fort Benton Historian
Historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton, River and Plains Society Board of Directors, Great Falls/ Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission, Honorary Trustee Union Bethel A. M. E. Church, Board of Directors Alma Smith Jacobs Foundation, Organization of American Historians, Montana Historical Society, Captain United States Navy (ret.) Received Montana Historical Society's Montana Heritage Keeper Award 2010 and The History Museum's Legacy Award 2011 Contact at: riverplains@mtintouch.net Check out: http://mhs.mt.gov/research/ AfricanAmerican/African AmericanInMT.asp
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