The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

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covered, it was due to the wise
treatment of the old woman Char
ring the s%inging), and not to Father
Points impulsive act.
In reference to the marriage re-
forms brought about by Father
Point during his brief stay at the
fort, Major Culbertson testifies that
whether married or unmarried, the
employees of the company did their
best to care for and educate their
children Mckenzie took his wife
and children to Red river, and put
the children in the missionary
schools; Culbertson's children were
educated in Illinois. Denig and Nor
gan moved to Red River. Malcolm
Clark sent his children to st. Paul
and to Cincinnati where his daugh-
tiers studied in converts; and Andrew
Dawson took his son Thomas to
Scotland with him, where he was at
school until the death of his father,
when he returned to America, and is
now living at Glacier Parke, having
married a daughter of Malcolm
Clark.
The years 1845 and 1916 were the
closing years of Fort Lewis. The In
dams had asked for the establish
ment of a post nearer the Teton, as
it was difficult to cross the river to
Fort Lewis in the spring and fall,
IN account of the floating ice; and
the abundance of timber on the Te-
ton made it a desirable place to
camp. Accordingly, in the spring Of
1916, Major C%ulbertson thought it
WanJ6 ho hate ,fO- 4-o1o 4O oho7 = oo
the location of the post, and select
ed the site for the new fort, where
its remains are now standing.
Fort Lewis vas torn down; RATED
to its future site, and rebuilt in
about a month. Work on it was
begun the first of April, and com
pleted in May. 1t was still Fort
Lewis, although transplanted.
After seeing the goods safely
stored i ntheir new quarters, Major
Culbertson went down the river to
Fort Union, accompanied by Father
Point. While at Fort Union, Major
Culbertson was invited by Colonel
Redfield, agent of the Crows, to go
with him to Fort Alexander. They
started up the Yellowstone in two
boats; one Of these being loaded
with goods for the fort, and the 9th
er bearing the annuities. When
they were near Powder river, Colonel
Redfield was taken i'll, and returned
with Major Culbertson to Fort I'm
ion, while the larger boat proceeded
to the fort, carrying both the goods
and the annuities. Later, on Col
onel Redfield's recovery, he and Cul-
bertson made the trip to Fort Alex
ander by land.
The American Fur Company had
built several forts on the Yellow
stone, bat one after the other were
abandoned. The present fort was
built by Larpenteur in 1889 below
mouth of the Big Horn, and
named for Alexander Culbertson.
This is Lieutenant Bradley's state
ment. Larpenteur claims it was
Quilt in 1912, and places it's site
some twenty miles higher up, on
Adams Prairie.
1t required some time to distrib-
lite the annuities, after which the
Colonel and Major retraced their
overland journey to Fort Union. Re-
.urning then to Fort Lewis, Major
Julbertson found the fort finished
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,ther company posts on the Missouri.
But the Major was not satisfied.
lie had visited Fort Laramie which,
.fter it became the property of the
American Fur company, was rebuilt
4 ADOBE, at a cost of ten thousand
-ollars, or over, and was the finest
ost belonging to the company Ma
or Culbertson determined his new
Id fort should be built in a like
lanner.
The next year-1S47-the annual
eturns from the fort were excep-
good, the fort being strip
ed OF everything almost that could
e exchanged for furs. Bedding,
loth1ng and anything that could be
pared went into the hands of the In
ians. Over 10000 robes and a
lrge collection of other furs were
snt down the river.
In 1850, Major Culbertson was di-
scted to arrange for a new post on I