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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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…McKenzie, his heart a drumbeat against his ribs, stood at the parapet, his rifle spitting fire into the darkness. Around him, his men fought with a desperate courage, their cries of defiance mingling with the triumphant shouts of the attackers. The air filled with the acrid smell of gunpowder and the raw, primal roar of battle. Pocatello’s fury had been unleashed, and the trappers of Fort Stuart found themselves facing the very real possibility of annihilation, their precarious foothold in Malad Valley hanging by a thread as fragile as the dawn’s first light. The night was long, and the battle for the valley had truly begun.