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The First Trappers and the Founding of Malad Valley : Fort Stuart. Written By Amy Kathryn Allen
Between the years of 1818 -1821 A group of French Canadian Trappers led bya Scottish Canadian Fur Trader named Douglas McKenzie arrived in what is now Malad Valley. Malad Valley was an untamed vast wilderness drought with disease, bitterly…
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…He knew that McKenzie’s fort, Fort Stuart, was just the first stone laid in a foundation that would reshape their world, a world that could never again be as it was. The counsel of Washakie was not a call to arms, but a solemn warning, a plea for foresight, a testament to the enduring strength of a people who understood that the greatest battles are not always fought with arrows and spears, but with wisdom and the will to endure.