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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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…Later, as the campfire crackled and the stars began to prick the velvet sky, McKenzie found himself sitting apart from the others. He watched the shadows dance, listening to the distant howl of a coyote, a sound that once struck fear into his heart, but now seemed a natural part of the valley’s symphony. He thought of the faces of the men who had fallen, their dreams of a prosperous return to Canada extinguished in the harsh embrace of Malad. He thought of the fierce pride in Pocatello’s eyes, and the quiet wisdom of Washakie. A figure emerged from the darkness, a silhouette against the firelight. It was an elder of the Shoshone Bann