CHAPTER XVIII

FORT UNION TO FORT BENTON

Description of Fort Union--Alexander Culbertson--The Blackfeet--Making peace--Surveys by side parties--Bugbear stories--Moving westward--Blackfoot war party--Big Muddy-- Missouri bottom--Every one ordered to walk part way daily-- Milk River--Field order--Abundant game--Gros Ventres--Feast and council--Feud with Blackfeet--Peace made between them-- Trading horses--Cypress Mountain--Stories of Indian fights--Bear's Paw Mountains--Party sent to view them--Box Elder Creek--The Three Buttes, favorite resort of Blackfeet-- Crosses Marias and Teton rivers--Scene of bloody Indian conflict--Fort Benton--Fort Campbell 347