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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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…They had stepped out of the shadows of conflict and into the uncertain light of negotiation. McKenzie knew the path ahead was fraught with peril. Pocatello’s presence was a dark cloud, a potent threat to any hope of lasting peace. But for the first time since setting foot in Malad Valley, Douglas McKenzie felt a flicker of something akin to optimism. He had offered his hand, and for now, it had not been met with a clenched fist. The gamble had begun, and the stakes were higher than any fur trade could ever command. The future of Fort Stuart, and the lives of his men, now rested on the precarious balance of trust and the will of a people who had every reason to wish them gone.