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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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…The fur trade, once a desperate gamble, has proven to be the valley’s true bounty, and the pelts, carefully harvested and meticulously prepared, fill the storage rooms of the fort, a testament to the trappers’ unyielding will. The relationship with the Shoshone Bannock remains a complex tapestry of caution and wary respect. Pocatello’s fiery resistance, though not entirely extinguished, has been tempered by the sheer persistence of the trappers and perhaps by the internal divisions within his own people. The counsel of Washakie, though distant, has seeped into the consciousness of some Shoshone Bann