Old Fort
Student, Writer, and Director in Fort Benton, MT 59442
Address
1900 River St
Fort Benton, MT 59442
Phone
406-622-5316
Categor
Museum
Hour
10:30AM–4:30PM
Description
Experience the fur and buffalo robe trade of the 1850’s at Historic OldFort Benton, Montana. Here the Blackfeet and other tribes traded buffalo robesand other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware,and cloth. Tour the Fort and see rooms filled with period furnishings, thetrade store with buffalo robes, beads, trinkets, blankets and other periodtrade goods, the warehouse with its fur trade era collections, and theblacksmith & carpenters shop. New for 2012, the newly reconstructedBourgeois House or Chief Traders residence will be open for visitors. TheBourgeois House is home to the Starr Gallery which features Karl Bodmer’s TravelsInto The Interior of North America aquatint collection, and Robert Scriver’s NoMore Buffalo Collection. Our knowledgeable staff will assist you in yourjourney of discovery of the Fort that became the most important robe tradingpost on the Upper Missouri River.