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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 fragile peace, if it had ever existed, was shattered. They had spilled blood on the sacred soil of the Malad Valley, and the Shoshone Bannock would not forget. He looked towards the distant mountains, a gnawing unease settling in his gut. The valley, so recently a place of potential riches, now felt like a battlefield. They had planted their flag, however crudely, but the soil was not theirs to claim. It belonged to the people who had just shown them the cost of their intrusion. The whispers of the wind now carried a new message, a grim prophecy of the trials yet to come. The first blood had been spilled, and the valley, forever marked by this violence, held its breath.