FORT BENTON TALES

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Historic Tales of Fort Benton

Deep in the heart of Blackfoot country on the Upper Missouri River, trade relations opened cautiously in 1831. A series of trading posts and clashes followed. By 1846, Fort Benton had become the center of commerce with Indigenous tribes, including the Blackfoot, who dubbed it “many houses to the South.” Drawing settlers from eastern states, the head of steamboat navigation became known as “the world’s innermost port.” As a result, the fort became a multicultural melting pot and home to the “Bloodiest Block in the West.” Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life dramatic sagas of a rapidly developing frontier, from vigilante X. Beidler to the drowning of General Thomas Francis Meagher, the exile of Canadian rebel and hero Louis Riel and the Marias and Ophir Massacres.

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Title: Historic Tales of Fort Benton
By Ken Robison
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781467154871
Price: $23.99
On Sale Date: 7/31/2023

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Previous Titles List:

Robison, Ken. Fort Benton. Charleston: Arcadia, 2009.

Robison, Ken. Cascade County and Great Falls. Charleston: Arcadia, 2011.

Thomson, Janet D. et al, Ed. Early Settlers of Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, 1884-1920. Vols. 1-2. Createspace, 2012. [Ken Robison wrote the History of Great Falls and the bios of more than 1,100 Black residents.]

Healy, John J. Life and Death on the Upper Missouri: The Frontier Sketches of Johnny Healy. Edited by Ken Robison. Charleston: Ken Robison, 2013.

Robison, Ken. Montana Territory and the Civil War: A Frontier Forged on the Battlefield. Charleston: The History Press, 2013.

Robison, Ken. Confederates in Montana Territory: In the Shadow of Price’s Army. Charleston: The History Press, 2014.

Swarthout, Robert, Ed. Montana A Cultural Medley, Stories of Our Ethnic Diversity. Ken Robison Chapter: “Breaking Racial Barriers: ‘Everyone’s Welcome’ at the Ozark Club—Great Falls, Montana’s African American Nightclub” by Ken Robison. Far Country Press, 2015.

McDermott, Paul D., Ed. The Mullan Road: Carving a Passage through the Frontier Northwest, 1859 to 1862. Ken Robison Chapter: “Completing the Mullan Road from Mullan Pass to Fort Benton: A Harbinger of Change.” By Ken Robison. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 2015. Pgs. 131-151, 2015.

Kohl, Martha, ed. Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Women’s Stories. Ken Robison Chapter “Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann.: Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2016.

Robison, Ken. Yankees & Rebels on the Upper Missouri: Steamboats, Gold and Peace. Charleston: The History Press, 2016.

Robison, Ken. World War I Montana: The Treasure State Prepares

Charleston: The History Press, 2018.

Glasrud, Bruce A. and Cary D. Wintz, Eds. Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West. Ken Robison Chapter: “Chapter 5: The Mountain States (Montana/Wyoming): Breaking Racial Barriers.” Norman: University of Oklahoma Press: February 2019.

Robison, Ken. Montanans in the Great War: Open Warfare Over There

Charleston: The History Press, 2019.

Robison, Ken. Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country: On the Trail from Montana's Fort Benton to Canada's Fort Macleod. Charleston: The History Press, September 2020.

Robison, Ken. Cold War Montana: From Stolen Secrets to the Ace in the Hole

The History Press, Oct 2021