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Bighorn

Travel Montana

A view from 1939:

BIG HORN, (2,712 alt., 50 pop.), is on ground occupied almost continuously by white men since Lt. William Clark camped here on July 26, 1806. Manuel Lisa built a trading post here in 1807. In 1822 Col. W. H. Ashley built another post, Fort Van Buren, two miles below the mouth of the Big Horn River. Many who followed the old trails or wore new ones to the "Shining Mountains," stopped to rest at this settlement, which remained small but contributed much to the comfort of travelers and adventurers who came by waterway and trail.

General Gibbon with 450 men crossed the Yellowstone at this point in June 1876, as he hurried south to aid General Custer in a battle that had already been lost.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.