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Poplar

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Poplar Directory Listings

A view from 1939:

POPLAR, (1,963 alt., 1,046 pop.), grew up around Fort Peck, which was maintained until 1887 to protect cattle ranchers from hostile Indians. The town and the river that skirts it were so named because of the trees along the banks of the stream. Before a bridge spanned the river, swains from the town swam their horses through the spring ice floes, when going to court girls living on the northern ranches.

In Poplar is the agency of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation of 1,525,537 acres, created in 1872.

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.