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After the ox train with the goods and supplies arrived the new post was built in November and December 1873. These were the first permanent houses within the Judith Basin. Koch described the basin area as the finest game country, swarming with buffalo, elk, and deer. | After the ox train with the goods and supplies arrived the new post was built in November and December 1873. These were the first permanent houses within the Judith Basin. Koch described the basin area as the finest game country, swarming with buffalo, elk, and deer. | ||
It soon became evident that the removal of the Crows to the basin area would not happen and Peter Koch left in March 1874. T. L. Dawes took charge of the Fort Sherman trading post. That year "Major" [[Alonzo S. Reed]], an old Indian trader, purchased | It soon became evident that the removal of the Crows to the basin area would not happen and Peter Koch left in March 1874. T. L. Dawes took charge of the Fort Sherman trading post. That year "Major" [[Alonzo S. Reed]], an old Indian trader, purchased [[ Fort Sherman (3)|Fort Sherman]] from Story and Hoffman and moved several buildings down Big Spring Creek about a mile and a half, to the crossing of the Carroll road, where it became known as [[Reed and Bowles Trading Post]]. This was a stockaded post with several buildings that provided quarters for both Reed and Bowles and their extended families as well as trading and mess facilities. It was also a stagecoach stop on the | ||
Carroll road between Carroll on the Missouri River and Helena Montana. | |||
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No on-site visible remains but two of the original buildings remain at the locations where they were moved by "Major" Reed. | |||
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HistoryThe trading opportunities presented by the possibility of a new Crow Indian reserve in the Judith Basin of the Central Montana Territory interested white businessmen Nelson Story and Charles W. Hoffman. In the fall of 1873, Story and Hoffman retained Peter Koch to travel north from Bozeman with a bull train of materials to "build, stock and manage" a trading post. He sited the new post on the west side of Big Spring Creek, just north of Little Casino Creek, and named it Fort Sherman. After the ox train with the goods and supplies arrived the new post was built in November and December 1873. These were the first permanent houses within the Judith Basin. Koch described the basin area as the finest game country, swarming with buffalo, elk, and deer. It soon became evident that the removal of the Crows to the basin area would not happen and Peter Koch left in March 1874. T. L. Dawes took charge of the Fort Sherman trading post. That year "Major" Alonzo S. Reed, an old Indian trader, purchased Fort Sherman from Story and Hoffman and moved several buildings down Big Spring Creek about a mile and a half, to the crossing of the Carroll road, where it became known as Reed and Bowles Trading Post. This was a stockaded post with several buildings that provided quarters for both Reed and Bowles and their extended families as well as trading and mess facilities. It was also a stagecoach stop on the Carroll road between Carroll on the Missouri River and Helena Montana. Current StatusNo on-site visible remains but two of the original buildings remain at the locations where they were moved by "Major" Reed.
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