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."*

05 January 2011

Some Fun with the Giant Spring

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Settlers Were Scarce and Homes Scarcer in Great Falls in the Year 1886. By Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann. Great Falls is undoubtedly t...
17 November 2010

The Travelling River Press Correspondent in Territorial Montana

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By Ken Robison In this era of the internet and day round television news, it is hard to imagine the life and times of correspondents for new...
08 November 2010

A Woman’s Perspective of Life on the Frontier: The Fort Benton Years of Martha Edgerton Rolfe--Part III An Adventure Down the Missouri River.

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By Ken Robison This continues the series of frontier historical sketches by historians at the Joel F. Overholser Historical Research Center ...
05 November 2010

Move Over Shep . . . Check out the Dog-Tramp "Bum"

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The Dog Tramp. “Bum,” the Traveling Tourist Registered at the Manitoba Hotel in Great Falls. We have read many stories of the sagacity of do...
26 September 2010

Great Falls, Montana's All-American City

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Time for a little update for Fort Benton's suburb, Great Falls. My article is just out in the new issue of Destination Great Falls. Ben ...
03 August 2010

The End of the Fort Benton Chinese: The Celestial Kingdom on the Upper Missouri—Part IV

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By Ken Robison This continues the series of frontier historical sketches by historians at the Joel F. Overholser Historical Research Center ...
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21 July 2010

“With cattle on a thousand hills and prairies”: The Remarkable Milton E. Milner

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