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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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…From the shadowed canyons and the windswept ridges, the Shoshone Bannock watched. Their land had been intruded upon, their sacred spaces disturbed. Fort Stuart was a cornerstone, yes, but it was also a marker of division, a physical manifestation of the chasm that still lay between the newcomers and the original inhabitants. The future of Malad Valley, and the fragile peace within it, remained as uncertain as the dawn that would eventually break over the mountains. The watchfulness continued, a silent promise that the story of this valley was far from over.