Podcasts about Fort Benton

In this episode of the Lancaster Farming Hemp Podcast, we welcome back Morris Beegle, the founder of NoCo Hemp Expo and a leading advocate in the hemp industry. The conversation spans the globe as Morris shares insights from his recent travels to Africa, Asia, and South America, discussing the growing industrial hemp movement worldwide. From the first-ever Kenya Hemp Conference to a 12-story hempcrete hotel in South Africa, Morris provides a firsthand look at the developing hemp sector in Africa. The 11th annual NoCo Hemp Expo is in Estes Park, Colorado, this April. Morris gives us a preview of what to expect, from expert panels to industry networking opportunities. Plus, we touch on U.S. policy, market access programs, and the challenges facing the industrial hemp sector. Learn More • NoCo Hemp Expo 2025 – April 10-12, 2025, Estes Park, Colorado • European Industrial Hemp Association Conference – June 11-13, 2025, Berlin, Germany • Green Buffalo – A short documentary film on hempcrete housing at the Lower Sioux Indian Community • Hemp Building Fiesta, Tucson, AZ – March 28-30, 2025 Sponsors IND HEMP, in Fort Benton, Montana Forever Green, distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter Music Courtesy of Tin Bird Shadow

We recap the wins at Fort Benton and against Shelby and move along with how this week's play is the stepping point to bigger goals.

We broke down the weekend split against CJI and Conrad and we look ahead to games coming up in Fort Benton and then back home for Shelby.

We get into how his team was able to earn a split after beating Conrad on the road on Saturday. We also preview how his team can continue the winning streak by beating both Fort Benton on the road and Shelby back at home.

Holtwood, PENNSYLVANIA—On this episode of the Industrial Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming visits with Lancaster County hemp farmer Steve Groff to discuss his recent trip to China. Steve shares his observations from visiting China's expansive hemp supply chain, from farms to textile factories. With vivid descriptions and first-hand insights, Steve explains how the Chinese grow, harvest and process industrial hemp at an unparalleled scale. The conversation explores: • The differences between Chinese and American hemp farming practices. • China's advanced textile production, blending hemp with cotton and flax. • The challenges and opportunities of scaling the U.S. hemp industry. • Steve's key takeaways from China, including what the fledgling American  hemp industry can learn from their systems. Thanks to our sponsors! KP4 Hemp Cutter: Revolutionizing hemp harvesting with speed and efficiency. Learn more King's AgriSeeds: Supporting fiber and grain hemp growers in the Mid-Atlantic region. Learn more IND Hemp: A family-owned hemp food, feed, and fiber company in Fort Benton, Montana. Learn more

We discussed comparing losses between Choteau and Fort Benton and what the keys will be moving forward as the Beeters start their 8-man football playoff journey on the road at Valley Christian on Saturday.

We get Coach Jones' thoughts on the Simms game in which he said players stepped up and we look ahead to the clash on Friday night with Fort Benton and how telling his team about playoff stakes might motivate them.

In Episode 26 of The Halloween Podcast, released on October 7, 2024, Lyle Perez explores the ghostly tales and eerie encounters from Montana, also known as Big Sky Country. Known for its breathtaking landscapes, this state is also rich in haunted history. From haunted hotels to ghost towns frozen in time, Montana is a treasure trove of spine-tingling stories. Featured Locations: Grand Union Hotel 1 Grand Union Square, Fort Benton, MT 59442 Built in 1882, this historic hotel was once a luxurious destination for travelers. Now, it is known for its haunted reputation, with ghostly apparitions of a young woman frequently reported in the halls and mirrors, believed to be a tragic figure from the hotel's past. Garnet Ghost Town Garnet, MT 59832 Once a booming mining town in the late 1800s, Garnet has now become one of Montana's most well-preserved ghost towns. Visitors often hear phantom music from the abandoned saloon and spot shadowy figures wandering through the deserted streets. Daly Mansion 251 Eastside Hwy, Hamilton, MT 59840 This opulent mansion, built in 1886 by copper magnate Marcus Daly, is said to be haunted by his wife Margaret and children's laughter, lingering in the hallways. Strange noises and cold spots have become common experiences for those who visit this stately home. Chico Hot Springs Resort 163 Chico Rd, Pray, MT 59065 Established in 1900, this popular resort is known for more than just its relaxing hot springs. Many guests report seeing the ghost of original owner Percie Knowles, particularly around Room 349, and hearing footsteps in empty hallways. Copper King Mansion 219 W Granite St, Butte, MT 59701 Built in 1888 by William A. Clark, this mansion is notorious for sightings of Clark's apparition and that of a young maid who met a tragic fate. Visitors often experience flickering lights, cold spots, and ghostly figures throughout the property. Fairweather Inn 113 W Wallace St, Virginia City, MT 59755 Virginia City's Fairweather Inn has operated since the late 1800s and is one of the town's most active paranormal sites. Guests report hearing strange noises at night, with a woman in white frequently seen on the staircase. Little Bighorn Battlefield Interstate 90 Frontage Rd, Crow Agency, MT 59022 This historic battlefield was the site of Custer's Last Stand in 1876. Visitors often experience feelings of sorrow and dread, as well as sightings of ghostly figures and distant sounds of battle from this tragic conflict. Boulder Hot Springs 31 Hot Springs Rd, Boulder, MT 59632 This historic resort has attracted visitors since the late 1800s and is known for sightings of "Simone," a spirit believed to be a former prostitute. Guests report hearing her laughter and feeling her presence, particularly near the second-floor windows. Bannack Ghost Town Bannack, MT 59725 Founded in 1862 during the gold rush, Bannack is a ghost town where the spirit of Dorothy Dunn, a young girl who drowned in Grasshopper Creek, is often seen. Visitors frequently report hearing a child's laughter or crying near the creek and eerie sightings around the old schoolhouse. Sacajawea Hotel 5 N Main St, Three Forks, MT 59752 Built in 1910, the Sacajawea Hotel hosts several spirits, including a woman in white who roams the grand staircase. Guests often experience strange noises, objects moving on their own, and ghostly footsteps throughout the night. Like Our Facebook page for more Halloween fun: www.Facebook.com/TheHalloweenPodcast ORDER PODCAST MERCH! Website: www.TheHalloweenPodcast.com Email: TheHalloweenPodcast@gmail.com X: @TheHalloweenPod Support the Show: www.patreon.com/TheHalloweenPod Get bonus Halloween content and more! Just for Patreon supporters! Check out my other show! Find it on iTunes - Amazing Advertising http://amazingadvertising.podomatic.com/ Keywords and Tags: Haunted Montana, ghost stories, paranormal Montana, Grand Union Hotel, Garnet Ghost Town, Daly Mansion, haunted hot springs, Chico Hot Springs, Copper King Mansion, Bannack Ghost Town, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Sacajawea Hotel, Haunted America series, ghostly encounters, The Halloween Podcast, spooky locations Montana

Secretary Russell Redding made an official Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture trip to Montana this week to meet with founders of IND HEMP, one of the largest hemp fiber and seed processors in the U.S. On this week's podcast, Lancaster Farming catches up with Redding as he visits the hemp facility in Fort Benton, Montana. The show features a joint interview with Redding and IND HEMP founder Ken Elliott from the IND HEMP office. Redding said he originally planned to attend the Montana Hemp Summit, hosted by IND HEMP, in Great Falls later this month, but had a commitment in Pennsylvania he could not cancel. Wanting to see the oil seed and fiber processing facilities with his own two eyes to better understand what is needed back home in Pennsylvania, he scheduled a last-minute trip to Big Sky Country. The fact-finding trip is part of a larger commitment from his department to develop a robust hemp industry in Pennsylvania, where, so far, the industry has struggled to find capital to build out the processing infrastructure. Redding spent the day with IND HEMP founders Morgan Tweet and Ken and Julie Elliott who answered his questions and gave him a tour of both the oil-seed facility and the fiber-processing facility, housed in separate facilities on IND HEMP's campus in Fort Benton, a town along the Missouri River in north-central Montana with a population of around 1,400. IND HEMP has created just over 50 jobs since setting up the facility in 2019. Redding is returning home with a new perspective. “I think in Pennsylvania, having something that would look like what is happening here in Montana is exactly what everybody in the steering committee and the hemp engine is trying to do, but it's not the final answer,” Redding said. “What I've learned today is that there's a quest to just keep building out the marketplace,” he said. “And the economics of that marketplace then determine sort of what those income streams look like for both the company and the farms,” he said. Elliott is optimistic about the Keystone State's potential in the burgeoning hemp industry, partially because of Pennsylvania's reputation for hemp in colonial times. He was keynote speaker at the Pennsylvania Hemp Summit in Harrisburg November 2022 and has since gotten to know key players in Pennsylvania's hemp industry. “We can help you guys take that next step,” he said. “We would love to be part of whatever the solution is for Pennsylvania's the hemp industry.” Do Pennsylvania farmers even have an appetite for hemp, after the boom and bust of the CBD market along with recent controversies surrounding so-called hemp-derived intoxicants like Delta 8? Redding thinks Pennsylvania have an appetite for something big and boring that can be another revenue stream for producers. “The margins, whether you're in Montana or Pennsylvania, are thin,” Redding said. “So to whatever extent we can add diversity to it — you can help de-risk the operation by adding an enterprise — that's universal.” Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Hemp Program IND HEMP Thanks to our sponsors! Mpactful Ventures Forever Green  

On this week's Hemp Podcast, I recap my recent visit to the Heart of Europe, the Golden City, the City of a Hundred Spires, the capital city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia — Prague. The occasion for my trip was the European Industrial Hemp Association's 21st annual Conference, this year held in the Czech Republic. I was invited to be part of an American delegation representing the American hemp industry. The trip was funded through a grant from the USDA Market Access Program, or MAPS. The Market Access Program allows the Foreign Agricultural Service, the FAS, to partner with American trade associations, cooperatives, trade groups and small business “to share the costs of overseas marketing and promotional activities that help build commercial export markets for U.S. agricultural products and commodities,” according to the USDA website. The National Industrial Hemp Council was given official cooperator status by the USDA earlier this year, giving it access to MAP funding. At the conference, I witnessed my fellow Americans developing relationships and making business deals, and I saw the purpose of the USDA's Market Access Program playing out in real time. During the conference, I interviewed over 30 hemp people from around the world. On this episode we'll hear what people had to say about hemp in Europe, what the U.S. can learn from the Europeans, what the Europeans can learn from the U.S., and a whole lot more. Before the conference started June 5, Lorenza Romanese, managing director of the European Industrial Hemp Association, was hopeful for a successful event. “I hope that people will engage. I hope that people will go back home knowing more than what they knew when they arrived,” she said. “I hope that they are able to develop business opportunities.” Francesco Mirizzi is senior policy advisor at EIHA and focuses on the fiber and grain sectors. He said the fiber industry is well developed in Europe, thanks in large part to farmers and processors in France. “We kept production in Europe after the Second World War, and we have something like seven or eight big size decortication facilities that allowed us to build a market for fiber,” he said, “mostly dedicated to specific paper application composites, and especially in the automobile industry, and fibers for insulation material in construction and chives (hurd) for construction, like hempcrete.” An epicenter of hemp construction in Europe is war-torn Ukraine, less than 800 miles to the east of Prague. Sergiy Kovalenkov is a Ukranian hemp builder who has been teaching refugees displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine how to rebuild with hemp. “We train the refugees, the people that lost their houses. And they started to build their own homes during the war using local biomass,” he said. “So when you tell me you have problems, trust me, let's go to Ukraine. I'll show you what problems are,” he said. Hana Gabrielová, a recent podcast guest, is from Czech Republic and was instrumental in bringing the conference to her home country. She has worked with hemp for over 20 years and is involved in many ares of hemp in Europe, including as a board member of EIHA as well as a member of the CzecHemp Cluster, an advisory board to help guide and grow the Czech hemp industry domestically and abroad. Gabrielová was very kind to me, pointing me in the right direction on Czech food, restaurants, pilsner, and what I should see while visiting this ancient city. She recommended the svíčková (pronounced sveech-covah), which she described as the national dish consisting of a root vegetable cream sauce and high quality beef sirloin, served with dumplings. It was good. As for what to see in Prague, she said I should see the astronomical clock in Old Town Square and the Charles Bridge over the River Vltava. “They are not far from each other,” she said. “Prague is not too big so you can walk it out and have a nice afternoon and see everything basically,” she said. I took her advice and wandered around the city each day after the conference ended. I cannot express to you how impressive the city was to me, with its ancient streets of cobblestone and castles and medieval fortresses. So much history in one place. But not all ancient history. I was inspired to learn more about the Velvet Revolution that took place in 1989. It started as student protests against the one party rule of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party. Within a week, the crowd grew to over 500,000 people in Wenceslas Square, shaking their house keys, telling the communists to step down and go home. It worked. By the end of the month, the party relinquished control over the people. I think we can all learn lessons from this story. We the people hold the power. IN this episode you will hear: 15:22 Hana Gabrielová https://hempoint.cz/en/ https://www.konopius.com/ 17:05 Lorenza Romanese EIHA Managing Director https://eiha.org/ 21:18 Francesco Mirizzi Sr. Policy Advisor, EIHA 27:06 Laurie Blanchecotte Antoine Moussie La Chanvrière 32:51 Sergiy Kovalenkov Ukrainian Hemp Builder https://hempire.tech 36:13 Jörg Morgner Axel Philipps https://www.temafa.com/ 38:43 Otilia Frolu Romanian Hemp Cluster 42:45 Stephania Christodoulou Pavlos Kitsis https://klostiki.com/ 50:15 Daniel Kruse https://hempconsult.com/daniel-kruse/ 53:26 Catherine Wilson https://uk.linkedin.com/in/catherine-wilson-b2a7133b 58:20 Christophe Nourissier https://en.augur.associates/equipe 1:07:26 Maciej Kowalski https://kombinatkonopny.pl/ 1:10:27 Daniel Matthews, Caroline Matthews, Tatham https://tatham-uk.com/ 1:12:47 Frederic Vallier Maren Krings Federation of International Hemp Organizations     https://marenkrings.com/ Learn More about USDA's Market Access program https://fas.usda.gov/programs/market-access-program-map Learn More about the National Industrial Hemp Council https://nihcoa.com/ News Nuggets Pa. Gov. Visits Lancaster County Hemp Farm to Announce Ag Innovation Grant https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/shapiro-farm-visit-promotes-10m-for-ag-innovation-in-budget-proposal/article_65f3adfe-2755-11ef-a48b-4f9a0a14b320.html 2024 NIHH Hemp Building WorkshopJune 20 – 21 • maple park, IL Register: https://nihh.org/ Read Eric Hurlock's blog about his trip to Praguehttps://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/hemp/follow-lancaster-farming-at-the-2024-european-industrial-hemp-conference-in-prague/collection_64c3071c-1f54-11ef-aa56-63dfa0a4ce3f.html Lancaster Hemp Circuit, August 20-21Learn more and register: info@kingsagriseeds.com Thanks to Our Sponsors! IND Hemp in Fort Benton, Montana https://indhemp.com/ Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council https://www.pahic.org/ Kings Agriseeds https://kingsagriseeds.com/ Forever Green https://www.getforevergreen.com/ Music by Tin Bird Shadow https://tinbirdshadow.bandcamp.com/album/dot-dot-dot

John Napton took a chance on the Imperial to get home from Fort Benton. A miserable voyage, constantly getting stuck on sand bars, no pilot, food with worms and passengers having to get out into the river to pull the boat off sand bars. He joined other passengers to finish the voyage in a salvaged Mackinaw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A steamboat could make $80,000 for the cargo and passengers going to Fort Benton in the Montana gold fields. Life was hard for the deck hands and crew. There was danger at every turn, of 700 steamboats, 300 were destroyed by snags, explosions and sand bars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We discuss last week's postponement and cancellation of games as well as what the team did to adjust as well as look ahead to games this week at home versus Fort Benton and on the road at Shelby.

We recap the Shelby game from Saturday and look ahead to back-to-backs at Fort Benton and versus Rocky Boy. We also ask about the Hallie Neibauer-Alexus Seymour dynamic.

We recap the Shelby game from last Saturday and talk about the state of the team and how they are gearing up for a short game week at Fort Benton and then at home versus Rocky Boy

An interview with three entrepreneurs in the hemp fiber and grain processing industries. Trey Riddle is the Chief Strategy Officer of IND Hemp in Fort Benton, Montana; James Forbes is Co-Founder of Tiger Fiber in St. Louis, Missouri; and Alex Mootz is the President of Complete Agronomy Solutions in Adams, Wisconsin. IND Hemp: https://indhemp.com/ Tiger Fiber: https://tigerfiberhemp.com/ Complete Agronomy Solutions: https://www.completeagsolutions.com/

This week on the podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Abner Johnson, chief operating officer at Pure Shenandoah, a Virginia-based, family-owned hemp company that has built a successful CBD brand while simultaneously going all in on fiber and hurd. Johnson and several of his siblings operate a full-spectrum hemp facility in the Shenandoah Valley. They process cannabinoids using CO2 extraction while also developing a fiber processing facility and operating a retail store that doubles as an event space and education center in downtown Elkton, about 15 east of Harrisonburg. “We started off like everybody else,” Johnson said, “with the CBD oils. We did a few different types and different strengths, kind of capitalizing on different terpene profiles.” Today the company offers a wide range of full-spectrum CBD products from oils and gummies to pet products and smokable flower. In the first few years of production, the company grew more CBD hemp than it needed. To maintain its product lines, it only needed to grow around 20 acres a year. “And that was a little bit of a Debbie Downer,” Johnson said, “because we wanted to see hemp take over and be the new cash crop and help out so many people.” And that, Johnson said, is why he and the company started growing and researching hemp for fiber and hurd. They started with 15 acres of fiber hemp the first year, around 200 acres the following year, and now they are currently growing several hundred acres, stockpiling the harvest in round bales to be processed at their fiber facility that's coming online soon. The company was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the Air Force to develop hempcrete blocks. Johnson said the U.S. military has set very ambitious carbon goals, and hemp as a building material fits nicely into its plans. “Receiving that contract is a huge, huge step in the right direction,” Johnson said. He said the military's interest in hemp reminds him of the Hemp for Victory program during World War II and how farmers were required to grow hemp in the American colonies. “History repeats itself,” he said. “And this contract with the Air Force to me is like a domino falling in the right direction.” Learn More about Pure Shenandoah https://pureshenandoah.com/ News Nuggets Minnesota cannabis czar steps down over illegal products in her hemp shop https://hemptoday.net/minnesota-cannabis-czar-steps-down-over-illegal-products-in-her-hemp-shop/ USDA Says Genetically Modified Hemp Plant ‘May Be Safely Grown And Bred' In The United States https://www.marijuanamoment.net/usda-says-genetically-modified-hemp-plant-may-be-safely-grown-and-bred-in-the-united-states/   Thanks to our sponsors for their support! Americhanvre Cast-Hemp, North American distributor of the E-Reasy Spray applied Hemp Crete System https://americhanvre.com/ IND HEMP in Fort Benton, Montana https://indhemp.com/  

We debrief on the Sugarbeeters' 56-28 victory over Harlem last Friday night with some great storytelling and look ahead to Fort Benton this coming Friday night, a game that can be heard on 101.3-FM KRYK.

What was the Montana Hemp Summit all about? Depends on who you ask. This episode was made on location in Fort Benton and Great Falls, Montana, and a few airports along the way home back to Pennsylvania. I will update this page with a list of the people I interviewed, but now I'm home and happy to be here and grateful to have gone to Montana to witness the event.  

On this week's hemp podcast, we talk to Dalton Wittmer, agronomist at IND Hemp, a hemp processing company based in Fort Benton, Montana. Growing up and working on a farm in southern Indiana and graduating from Purdue University's agronomy program, Wittmer has been chin deep in agriculture his whole life. “I worked on a farm since I was 12 and just been around livestock — cattle, pigs, a little bit of turkeys. And row cropping, corn and soybeans mainly, so I've had a pretty good learning experience on the farm,” he said. His interest in industrial hemp was piqued in college where one of his advisers was leading Purdue's hemp research program. Wittmer knew there was stigma around hemp, but he said he wanted to help “bring the goodness of hemp to America and across the world” for its environmental and economic benefits. Wittmer relocated to Fort Benton a year and half ago and has been enjoying his new life in the West. “I''m an outdoors person. That's my happy place, and in Montana, you have anything outdoors you could ever imagine,” he said. “And it's right outside my living room window. I get to see antelope, mule deer, moose, bears, whatever it is,” he said. The town of Fort Benton is along the Missouri River in north-central Montana, where the land is generally flat but the conditions are dry and often difficult for farming. Between scant rainfall, destructive hail storms and clouds of hungry grasshoppers, farming in Big Sky Country isn't a walk in the park. Wheat is the main crop in Montana, and it's a challenge to get the small-grain guys thinking about growing a new crop like industrial hemp. “They like growing wheat. That's what makes them their money. And they know that,” Wittmer said. But there are farmers in Montana who are willing to put in some acres of hemp and give it a go. This year, Wittmer said, IND Hemp has contracted farmers to grow around 7,000 acres of hemp. Five thousand of those acres are what Wittmer calls a dual-purpose crop that will yield both grain and fiber. The remainder of the acreage is a single-purpose fiber crop, he said. About half of the acreage is under pivot irrigation, but so far this year, the dryland acreage is keeping pace with the irrigated crops. “The majority of the state is sitting pretty good with moisture this year,” he said. “The rains have been coming, and they've been nice amounts. You know, they've been a half-inch here, an inch there.” Thanks to our sponsors for their generous support: IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/ Mpactful Ventures https://www.mpactfulventures.org/ HempWood https://hempwood.com/

So, who is Montana's secret admirer? This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger Dale decided to find out. I guess you could say he was “shocked” when he found out just who it was. As Rigger put it, “I really was shocked, pardon the pun, to find out that such a big company would do something like that! Not because they had to but just because they wanted to. Mainly  they just see it as the right thing to do. I suppose you are still scratching your head and wondering, who the heck are we talking about? Well odds are that many of you in Montana do business with them every month. Downrigger spent time with Kim McMahon and Andy Welch on the podcast and they talked about the Missouri-Madison River Fund, which is officially described as a “grant program that is implemented through the Missouri-Madison Comprehensive Recreation Plan. It addresses the ongoing needs for public recreation in the Missouri-Madison Project Area”. Created as a public-private partnership among local government, state and federal agencies, Project 2188 Hydroelectric Project, River Fund grants and our secret admirer's matching funds are awarded annually for qualifying projects. Now, when we say “secret” we are stretching the truth a bit, as actually it is not a secret. It is just that we, and likely most everyone else has no idea that this corporation has been doing all this wonderful stuff! Still not sure who we are talking about? Well, listen to this week's Montana Outdoor Podcast! This Podcast is packed full of all kinds of great information. In fact, in addition to talking about all the great things this wonderful company is doing that benefits areas all along the Missouri and Madison Rivers from West Yellowstone to Fort Benton and even beyond, Downrigger and his guests also talk about the company's involvement high up into the Beartooth Mountains and even down the Clark Fork River in Thompson Falls! Ok now, no cheating! AFTER you listen to the podcast then you can do the following: If you would like to Learn more about the Missouri-Madison Project, click here. To send questions or comments to our guests; click here to send an email to Kim McMahon and click here to send an email to Andy Welch. If you would like to see a listing of all the projects that they and the company have been working on since 2007 click here. This is a VERY impressive list! How many of those places listed there have you been to? Remember NO SPOILER ALERTS by telling your friends who the secret admirer is! Just share  this link on your social media pages and send it to your pals!Remember to tune in to our live radio show, The Montana Outdoor Radio Show, every Saturday morning from 6:00AM to 8:00AM. The show airs on 30 radio stations all across the State of Montana. You can get a list of our affiliated radio stations on our website. You can also listen to recordings of past shows, get fishing and and hunting information and much more at that website or on our Facebook page. You can also watch our radio show there as well.

This week on the Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast, Sean V. Bradley and LA Williams interview Mike Schneider, Dealer Principal of Jim Taylor Motors in Fort Benton, MT. How does one become a dealer principal by 30 years old? What nuggets of knowledge has Mike learned in his automotive career? What is it like to be a dealer principal in a small Montana community? Mike Schneider knew from an early age that his goal was to become a dealer principal at a Ford dealership. Mike credits his time as a performance trainer for advancing his understanding of what makes a good, well-rounded manager. He learned that he couldn't expect sales to go up if, as the boss, he didn't put money into advertising, and in that same vein, he can't expect a better performance from a car salesman if, as a manager, he isn't promoting training. The new automotive mindset has moved away from the sink-or-swim mentality to more internal investments and personal investment to build up the sales team as a team. Management is the key skill that many people in the automotive industry struggle with, so listen in to see what lessons Mike Schneider can impart so you can take your automotive career to the next level!   About Mike Schnider Mike Schnider grew up with a dad in that business, and as a kid, Mike worked on his dad's buy-here-pay-here lot in Spokane, Washington. During that time, Mike discovered his life goal to be a dealer principal of a Ford store. He started selling cars for a franchise auto dealer as a summer job in his second year playing college football. From there, Mike worked his way from sales to finance manager to the used care manager to general sales manager. Moving to the corporate side of the business doing performance training with dealerships around the country, the opportunity to purchase my Ford, Chevy, and GMC points became available. In 2019 Mike took over the dealerships and completed the full purchase of the facility and points in 2022, making Mike a first-generation dealer and sole dealer principal.    About Jim Taylor Motors At Jim Taylor Motors, everything we do revolves around you. Our various teams are trained to address your needs from the moment you walk through the door, whether you're in the market for your next vehicle or tuning up your current one. Starting with our selection of new Ford, Chevrolet, and GMC models, our Fort Benton showroom is the place to be if you're in the market for a Ford F-150, Ford Escape, GMC Sierra 1500, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, or Chevrolet Silverado 2500.   Resources Dealer Synergy & Bradley On Demand: The automotive industry's #1 training, tracking, testing, and certification platform and consulting & accountability firm. The Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast: is the #1 resource for automotive sales professionals, managers, and owners.  Also, join The Millionaire Car Salesman Facebook Group today! The Against All Odds Radio Show: Hosting guests that have started from the bottom and rose to the top.  Also, join The Against All Odds Radio Show Guests & Listeners Facebook Group for the podcasted episodes. For more interactivity, join The Millionaire Car Salesman Club on Clubhouse. Win the Game of Googleopoly: Unlocking the secret strategy of search engines.   The Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast is Proudly Sponsored By:  Money Mind Mapp (M3): Visit MoneyMindMapp.com for help in revolutionizing your business to help you sell more cars by tracking, projecting, and forecasting your personal sales goals! Bradley On Demand: Automotive Sales Industry's #1 Interactive Training, Tracking, Testing and Certification Platform. With over 7,500 training modules, our platform has everything you and your dealership needs to sell more cars, more often and more profitably!  

Sindy Baack the office manager for the Fort Benton Museums explains the great historical significance of Fort Benton.

Ken is an historian and preservationist and a chronicler of neglected Montana history at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton and the Great Falls/Cascade County Historic Preservation Commission. Ken served in Naval Intelligence for nearly thirty years with eleven years of sea duty in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Vietnam War and Cold War contingency operations. During Operation Homecoming he served as escort and debriefer for senior Navy Prisoner of War James Bond Stockdale. Ken's book "Cold War Montana" on Montana's indispensable role in the war against Communism. Utilizing the Lend-Lease pipeline, Soviet spies ferried stolen nuclear and industrial secrets, loaded in diplomatic pouches, from Great Falls to the Soviet Union. Army nurse Lieutenant Diane Carlson served as "an angel of mercy" at the Pleiku Evacuation Hospital in the Central Highlands in Vietnam. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support

Join Mandi Kerr, Morgan Tweet, Courtney Moran, and Erica Stark on Friday morning's episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. For this morning we'll talk about: Grain & Fiber Hemp Exemption Bill Campaign Goals: Draft legislation and pass a bill creating an exemption for industrial hemp, grain & fiber. Educate lawmakers about the need for exemptions and opportunities with grain & fiber Secure bipartisan support for the exemption framework Unite and mobilize advocates Morgan Tweet is a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer of IND HEMP, an industrial hemp food and fiber processing company in Fort Benton, Montana. Morgan planned, constructed, and commissioned the IND HEMP Oilseed processing plant in early 2020 and manages daily operations. Morgan graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in Chemical Engineering then worked for Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur, Illinois launching her career in agriculture and food processing. Courtney N. Moran, LL.M., Founding Principal of EARTH Law, LLC and Chief Legislative Strategist for Agricultural Hemp Solutions, LLC is the leading expert on U.S. hemp law championing legal policy for sustainable Cannabis hemp agribusiness development. Courtney worked closely with the offices of Senator Ron Wyden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in drafting and negotiating the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 (S. 2667), the language included in the 2018 federal Farm Bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, federally legalizing hemp. Erica Stark is the Executive Director of the National Hemp Association for almost 5 years now. Erica is also the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council and serves as the co-chair of the Policy and Regulation Subcommittee of the PA Hemp Steering Committee which is the official advisory council to the PA Dept. of Agriculture. She is a sought-after speaker with years of experience in hemp education and legislative advocacy, including testifying before Congress.

Join Mandi Kerr, Morgan Tweet, Courtney Moran, and Erica Stark on Friday morning's episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. For this morning we'll talk about: Grain & Fiber Hemp Exemption Bill Campaign Goals: Draft legislation and pass a bill creating an exemption for industrial hemp, grain & fiber. Educate lawmakers about the need for exemptions and opportunities with grain & fiber Secure bipartisan support for the exemption framework Unite and mobilize advocates Morgan Tweet is a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer of IND HEMP, an industrial hemp food and fiber processing company in Fort Benton, Montana. Morgan planned, constructed, and commissioned the IND HEMP Oilseed processing plant in early 2020 and manages daily operations. Morgan graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in Chemical Engineering then worked for Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur, Illinois launching her career in agriculture and food processing. Courtney N. Moran, LL.M., Founding Principal of EARTH Law, LLC and Chief Legislative Strategist for Agricultural Hemp Solutions, LLC is the leading expert on U.S. hemp law championing legal policy for sustainable Cannabis hemp agribusiness development. Courtney worked closely with the offices of Senator Ron Wyden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in drafting and negotiating the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 (S. 2667), the language included in the 2018 federal Farm Bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, federally legalizing hemp. Erica Stark is the Executive Director of the National Hemp Association for almost 5 years now. Erica is also the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council and serves as the co-chair of the Policy and Regulation Subcommittee of the PA Hemp Steering Committee which is the official advisory council to the PA Dept. of Agriculture. She is a sought-after speaker with years of experience in hemp education and legislative advocacy, including testifying before Congress.

On this week's show, Eric Hurlock reports from Fort Benton, Montana, home of IND HEMP, the host and coordinator of the Summer Summit. IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/ Sunflower Film's One Plant https://sunflower.film/work Mpactful Ventures https://www.mpactfulventures.org/ National Hemp Association https://nationalhempassociation.org/ Support the Hemp Exemption https://www.hempexemption.com/ Global Hemp Association https://globalhempassociation.org/    

This is the Cardinal Health 2022 Retail Business Conference summary show.   The Pharmacy Podcast Network was BACK at this years Cardinal RBC in Las Vegas! Listen to our interviews with: Brad Jones, CEO of RMS, Retail Management Solutions Chris Halko, the owner and pharmacist of both Fort Benton and Big Sandy Pharmacies in Montana. Imad Karaze, Pharmacist and Owner, Beaumont Pharmacy Debbie Weitzman, President of Pharmaceutical Distribution at Cardinal Health."  Greco De Valencia, Vice President of Pharmacy at Live Oak Bank. Live Oak Attendees came together at the Mandalay Bay Conference center in Las Vegas from July 13 to 16, marking the 30th anniversary of the Cardinal Health's RBC event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the Cardinal Health 2022 Retail Business Conference summary show.   The Pharmacy Podcast Network was BACK at this years Cardinal RBC in Las Vegas! Listen to our interviews with: Brad Jones, CEO of RMS, Retail Management Solutions Chris Halko, the owner and pharmacist of both Fort Benton and Big Sandy Pharmacies in Montana. Imad Karaze, Pharmacist and Owner, Beaumont Pharmacy Debbie Weitzman, President of Pharmaceutical Distribution at Cardinal Health."  Greco De Valencia, Vice President of Pharmacy at Live Oak Bank. Live Oak Attendees came together at the Mandalay Bay Conference center in Las Vegas from July 13 to 16, marking the 30th anniversary of the Cardinal Health's RBC event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hemp feed coalition executive director, Morgan Tweet and North Carolina State University Professor of Equine Nutrition, Dr. Shannon Pratt-Phillips Join to provide updates on the hemp feed coalition and current research on hemp feed for horses. For this morning, we'll talk about: 1. Current efforts to complete the necessary research for a Hemp for Horses application. 2. Dr. Pratt-Phillips current Research Evaluating hemp seed oil for meeting the nutritional and caloric requirements for horses. 3. Current Hemp Feed Coalition Fundraiser. 4. Additional data submitted for the Hemp Seed Meal for Laying Hens application. 5. Recent discoveries about the myriad benefits of hemp for horses. Morgan Tweet is a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer of IND HEMP, an industrial hemp food and fiber processing company in Fort Benton, Montana. Morgan planned, constructed, and commissioned the IND HEMP Oilseed processing plant in early 2020 and manages daily operations. Morgan graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in Chemical Engineering then worked for Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur, Illinois launching her career in agriculture and food processing. Dr. Shannon Pratt-Phillips is a professor of equine nutrition in the Department of Animal Science at North Carolina State University. Pratt-Phillips received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph in nutritional science. Her Master of Science is from the University of Kentucky and her doctorate is from the University of Guelph, both focused on equine nutrition and exercise physiology. She joined the faculty at NCSU in 2006 where she teaches in the field of equine science and nutrition, both via traditional face-to-face classes and online.

Hemp feed coalition executive director, Morgan Tweet and North Carolina State University Professor of Equine Nutrition, Dr. Shannon Pratt-Phillips Join to provide updates on the hemp feed coalition and current research on hemp feed for horses. For this morning, we'll talk about: 1. Current efforts to complete the necessary research for a Hemp for Horses application. 2. Dr. Pratt-Phillips current Research Evaluating hemp seed oil for meeting the nutritional and caloric requirements for horses. 3. Current Hemp Feed Coalition Fundraiser. 4. Additional data submitted for the Hemp Seed Meal for Laying Hens application. 5. Recent discoveries about the myriad benefits of hemp for horses. Morgan Tweet is a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer of IND HEMP, an industrial hemp food and fiber processing company in Fort Benton, Montana. Morgan planned, constructed, and commissioned the IND HEMP Oilseed processing plant in early 2020 and manages daily operations. Morgan graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in Chemical Engineering then worked for Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur, Illinois launching her career in agriculture and food processing. Dr. Shannon Pratt-Phillips is a professor of equine nutrition in the Department of Animal Science at North Carolina State University. Pratt-Phillips received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph in nutritional science. Her Master of Science is from the University of Kentucky and her doctorate is from the University of Guelph, both focused on equine nutrition and exercise physiology. She joined the faculty at NCSU in 2006 where she teaches in the field of equine science and nutrition, both via traditional face-to-face classes and online.

A conversation with Connie Jenkins, Organizer of Fort Benton's Summer Celebration

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 426, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: May Day 1: On May 1, 1996 this national railway passenger service celebrated its 25th anniversary. Amtrak. 2: This Palestinian leader's status was confirmed in 1996 when President Clinton met with him. Yasser Arafat. 3: On May 1, 1937, 5 days after the town was bombed, he began sketching "Guernica". Pablo Picasso. 4: The Croats opened fire again May 1, 1995 after the ceasefire negotiated by this ex-U.S. president expired. Jimmy Carter. 5: He was ready and he fired May 1, 1898. Captain Charles Gridley. Round 2. Category: Bird Words And Phrases 1: Many a slugabed has been reminded that "The early bird catches" this. The worm. 2: Originally a place in which fowl fought, it now often refers to the pilot's compartment in an airplane. Cockpit. 3: In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this. kill a mockingbird. 4: If you're completely undressed, you're as "naked as" this bird that's noisy and often bright blue. Jaybird. 5: It's a "homicidal" phrase for achieving 2 goals with a single effort. Killing two birds with one stone. Round 3. Category: Blank Of The Blank 1: This expression meaning "the best part" mixes dairy and plant farming. cream of the crop. 2: This comparison of 2 boxers before a fight includes numbers for height, reach and chest size. tale of the tape. 3: Thomas Dixon wrote a play about Abe Lincoln titled this kind of guy with a common touch. Man of the People. 4: This local public officer with judicial powers may accept payment for your speeding ticket. a justice of the peace. 5: To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this. benefit of the doubt. Round 4. Category: Clean 4-Letter Words 1: Dial and Zest are 4-letter brands of this. soap. 2: The first appearance of daylight, or the dishwashing detergent that's tough on grease. Dawn. 3: How you feel when you're happy, or the joy of putting trash in this product's garbage bags, the first plastic ones sold. Glad. 4: The rise and fall of the ocean water, or a detergent that has cleaned clothes for more than 50 years. Tide. 5: The knob on a radio, or the antibacterial soap you'd use on your hands if the knob was dirty. Dial. Round 5. Category: Really Long Rivers 1: While cruising down this river in 1542, Francisco de Orellana was attacked by female warriors; thus, its name. Amazon. 2: Ptolemy guessed the area of the source of this river almost 2,000 years before it was found. Nile. 3: This Chinese river is really "long" since its alternate name, Chang Jiang, means "long river". Yangtze. 4: During high water, this river was once navigable from Fort Benton, Montana to St. Louis. Missouri. 5: At Khone Falls on the Cambodia-Laos border, this river is 6 1/2 miles wide. Mekong. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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Join Jolene from Ghost Towns and History of Montana for stories of the people and places that formed the Treasure State! In this episode, we ride along with a Montana pioneer family for an overland trip from Helena to Fort Benton... Story accessed from the Library of Congress at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Photo by James Willard Schultz, Courtesy of MSU Library Music by David Gwyn Jones Sound clips provided by: Zapsplat.com

Beginning in 1870, supplies, trade goods, immigrants, adventurers—and whiskey—traveled the now-legendary Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton to the eponymous Alberta trading post. In Tales of Whoop-Up Country, Great Falls historian and author Ken Robison relates how the absence of law and order forced the Canadian government to create the North-West Mounted Police to close down the whiskey trade and force traders back across the border into Montana.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 233, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The "Real" World 1: A simulated 3-D environment that a user can experience and manipulate as if it were physical. Virtual reality. 2: Land, including all the natural resources and permanent buildings on it. Real estate. 3: It finishes the 1942 advertising slogan: "The Only Thing Like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola Itself. It's...". the Real Thing. 4: A process viewed while it actually happens is viewed in this mode. Real time. 5: In mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as a finite or infinite decimal expression. Real number. Round 2. Category: Music Facts 1: Most authorities say a chord has at least this many notes. three. 2: Traditionally an orchestra's concertmaster sits on this side of a conductor. the left side. 3: On a musical staff pitch is indicated by this symbol. note. 4: Of lento, adagio, or andante, the slowest tempo. lento. 5: Using "the circle of fifths", this key signature follows C major. G major. Round 3. Category: Really Long Rivers 1: While cruising down this river in 1542, Francisco de Orellana was attacked by female warriors; thus, its name. Amazon. 2: Ptolemy guessed the area of the source of this river almost 2,000 years before it was found. Nile. 3: This Chinese river is really "long" since its alternate name, Chang Jiang, means "long river". Yangtze. 4: During high water, this river was once navigable from Fort Benton, Montana to St. Louis. Missouri. 5: At Khone Falls on the Cambodia-Laos border, this river is 6 1/2 miles wide. Mekong. Round 4. Category: Ike Speaks 1: Of this man's contributions to major White House decisions, Ike said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one". Nixon. 2: Eisenhower said, "No treaty or international agreement can contravene" this document. the Constitution. 3: Ike telegrammed that the mission of "Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 hours local time" in this month, 1945. May. 4: In 1957 Ike used "the full power of the United States" to enforce integration at Central High in this city. Little Rock. 5: Eisenhower said appointing him to the Supreme Court was "the biggest damn-fool mistake I ever made". Earl Warren. Round 5. Category: "Horse" Sense 1: He pursues Ichabod Crane through Sleepy Hollow. the Headless Horseman. 2: Pungent ground up armoracia rusticana roots used as a condiment. Horseradish. 3: He's the Native American leader emerging here. Crazy Horse. 4: A little-known, unexpectedly successful political candidate. Dark horse. 5: Unit equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. Horsepower. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

This week on the industrial hemp podcast we talk to Morgan Elliott, co-founder and chief operating officer at IND HEMP in Fort Benton, Montana, where they are building a massive hemp industrial complex to process the grain and fiber being grown by Montana farmers. We talk about her role at the company that she founded with her family, the leadership role IND HEMP has taken in the industry, the potential of the US hemp market and what that could mean for farmers. "There's such a big pie in the sky of opportunity if we're talking acres," says Elliott. "Just five percent of the United States' commodity market — so mostly going to corn and soy — if we had just five percent of that, it's like 8 million acres. It's huge." IND HEMP https://www.indhemp.com/ Take a tour of IND HEMP's new fiber processing plant in Montana https://www.lancasterfarming.com/community/videos/ind-hemp-fiber-plant-tour-part-1/video_e5279d50-076a-11ec-ace3-47a7dfdeaf38.html Hemp Acreage and Production Survey https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Hemp/index.php Southern Hemp Expo Takes Place In Raleigh This Week https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelinebryant/2021/08/31/southern-hemp-expo-takes-place-in-raleigh-this-week/ Rebuilding Haiti with bamboo and hemp https://thehill.com/opinion/international/569849-rebuilding-haiti-with-bamboo-and-hemp Hemp Research Field Walk, September 16 https://web.cvent.com/event/8edad680-9d1c-4028-b37a-1deb7158c533/summary

On this week's podcast, we talk to Lancaster County farmer Steve Groff about his new one-of-a-kind Hemp Maze at Cedar Meadow farm in Holtwood, Pennsylvania. Education, education, education. “That's really what's behind the maze,” Groff said. “We have all this lack of education from the general public." They just don't know the various beneficial uses of hemp. “Consumers need to be aware of it, so they can begin to ask for it,” Groff said. “With all these hundreds if not thousands of products that could be made with hemp — a renewable resource, by the way, and one that farmers could benefit from if we can get this infrastructure up and running.” The maze was designed and implemented by the York County-based company Maize Quest, and after the interview with Steve Groff, we'll hear from Maize Quest's master of mazes, Hugh McPherson. Cedar Meadow Farm https://cedarmeadow.farm/ Get your Hemp Maze Tickets here: https://www.cedarmeadowadventures.com/ Maize Quest https://mazecatalog.com/ News Nuggets Texas ban on smokable hemp tossed, opening potential $400 million market https://hempindustrydaily.com/texas-ban-on-smokable-hemp-tossed/ Hawaii bans smokable hemp, CBD drinks and gummies https://hempindustrydaily.com/hawaii-bans-smokable-hemp-cbd-drinks-and-gummies/ PA Hemp Summit https://pahempsummit.com/ Southern Hemp Expo https://www.southernhempexpo.com/ Thanks to our Sponsor IND HEMP in Fort Benton, Montana https://www.indhemp.com/

The podcast rolled into Fort Benton, Montana, for a meeting of fiber and grain industry folks who got together to talk about the industry and challenges and opportunities facing the industry. This episode is a recap of the day's events.

We chat with Dave Steveson about detailing cars, the difference between a truck and a pick-up, trauma, PTSD, veterans, pursuing dreams and much more! Did you know there is a Treasure State Truck show? Dave organized and pulled off his first truck show and it will now be an amazing annual event in Fort Benton, MT.David owns Daves Detail and Metal Polishing in Great Falls, MT. Check out his website and how he does not just see problems, but Dave works for solutions. This was a heartfelt and intriguing interview that you will be glad you listened to every last minute.Find Dave and his shop on InstagramFacebook for the treasure state truck showFind Joe on InstagramFind Bryon on InstagramFind the podcast on Instagram

We try a new segment for the show titled "check out this jazz."Joe shares about a busy week of shows and meeting cool people in Fort Benton, MT. A new coffee shop, a truck show, and a brand new local brewery.Bryon shares about a new pair of shoes, and what is shed hunting.Supporting local businesses, especially in small town America is super important. Listen to some of our stories and how we like to support local business.Find Joe: InstagramFind Bryon: InstagramFollow the show on Instagram

My guest and I dive deep into Fort Benton history. We include Lewis and Clark, fur trading, mining, open range ranching and of course the ever famous Shep. 

On this week's show we talk to Benjamin Brimlow and Gregg Gnecco from IND HEMP in Fort Benton, Montana. IND HEMP is an industrial hemp processor and ingredient supplier that contracts with about 30 grain farmers across Montana (and a few in Washington and Oregon) to supply their oil see processing facility. The company has recently broken ground on what will become one of the largest fiber processing plants in the country. Brimlow is the lead agronomist for IND HEMP and he gets into lots of details about what it takes to grow hemp in Montana – from dryland fields to hail damage to a plague of grasshoppers – It’s truly a fascinating look at hemp farming in the West. IND HEMP https://www.indhemp.com/

In this Podcast Chris Reyes catches up with the Longhorns head coach Jory Thompson as he gives a mini preview of the upcoming season.

Best Old Time Radio Podcast with Bob Bro Thursday Western for July 2, 2020: Frontier Gentleman: "The Trial" J B Kendall, a reporter for the London Times, in in Montana Territory where he comes across a criminal trial in Fort Benton. Appalled by the lack of due process afforded the accused, he soon finds himself thrust into the role of backwoods barrister defending an ex-Indian scout being tried for murder. Featuring: John Dehner, Harry Bartell, Joseph Kearns, Wil Wright, Jack Moyles, Jeantte Nolan, Vic Perrin, Stacy Harris. Original Air Date: 4/13/58 on CBS

This week on the podcast we're with Nicolle Fugere of Missouri River Outfitters in Fort Benton, Montana (pop. 1,443). Nicolle's started as a guide for Missouri River Outfitters when she was 19, has worked for them every summer since, and always dreamed of someday owning the company. That dream came true four years ago and she has created a great life around this very special part of Montana. She's sharing how she's bringing in new ideas and taking the company even further and bringing a true Montana experience to her customers.You'll love how Nicolle has embraced the community in Fort Benton — and how the community has embraced her. Be sure to check out the show notes for some amazing photos of what you can expect to see on the Missouri River Outfitters' trips and follow along to see Nicolle's vision of a new company storefront come to life.Check out more on the blog.SHOW NOTES:Billings, MontanaFort Benton, MontanaStephen AmbroseLewistown, MontanaJudith Landingwww.mroutfitters.comFacebook:/mroutfittersInstagram: @missouririveroutfitters

“Listen. If the first thing on our mind is food and water on a road trip, I’m going to be dozing off the whole time. If the first thing on the list is machetes, I am super into that road trip.” The second episode of Small Town Radio with your hosts, New York City comedians, Maxim and Connor. This episode we cover too many towns in great length. Highlights on this virtual road trip include Idyllwild, CA; Fort Benton, MT; St. Malo, LA; Skagway, AK; Regent, ND & the Town of the City of Dawson, a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Send your suggestions for towns to smalltownradiopodcast@gmail.com and follow the show @stradiopod on Instagram and Twitter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/small-town-radio/message

Host: ANDRAS JONES  Musical Guest: CAROLINE KEYS  with Gibson Hartwell                                                                       Guest: CHRIS BAUMANN R8B Theme Song performed by: CAROLINE KEYS "Still MySpace After All These Years" by BOYS Andras Jones - Producer/Editor Chris Baumann- Recording Engineer Tony Householder - Mixing Engineer/Graphic Design Branika Scott - Social Media Producer Carlo Velasquez - Digital Media Brought to you by Erica Russel LINKS: RADIO8BLOG - http://www.radio8ball.com/chris-baumann-caroline-keys/ CAROLINE KEYS - https://www.carolinekeys.com/  BOYS - https://thoseboys.bandcamp.com/ BLACK NATIONAL STUDIOS - https://blacknationalrecording.com/     RADIO8BALL APP - http://www.radio8ball.com/the-r8b-app/  RADIO8BALL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball  RADIO8BALL FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/radio8ball/  RADIO8BALL TWITTER - @radio8ball  RADIO8BALL INSTAGRAM - @theradio8ballshow  Support the show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Blansett, owner of Blansett Plumbing in Fort Benton, Montana joins Richard on today's Potty Talk LIVE. Craig shares how he is not only a master plumber but, by having his own plumbing company he is master of his time.

Fort Benton’s Overholser Historical Research Center historian Ken Robison unveils new and neglected stories of Montanans in the Great War. Robison shares tales from Montanans serving around the world, focusing on the role of Montana’s women U.S. Navy yeomen, nurses, and “Hello Girls”; Montanans in the Russian Railway Service Corps; the unknown role Charles M. Russell played in support of the war; the contributions of Montana’s ethnic citizens to World War I; and more.

It is said that newspaper reporters, in their hurried, inevitably flawed way, are writing the first draft of history. Veteran reporter Ed Kemmick talks about some of his favorite history-tinged newspaper stories, from the tale of the so-called Petrified Man discovered near Fort Benton to the exploits of Horace Bivins, buffalo soldier, top army marksman, and, in retirement in Billings, a master gardener. Kemmick has worked as a reporter and editor in Montana for more than thirty-five years and is the author of “The Big Sky, By and By.” He is retired as of July 2018, when he suspended publication of his four-and-a-half-year-old online newspaper, Last Best News.

Nearly all of the violent acts that happened in early Fort Benton occurred in one place.

Originally published September 3, 2015 Mark Highland and I were talking about Bob and I was saying he’s all over Facebook etc these days and since this was definitely one of my all time favorites I thought I’d replay it this week for Valentine’s Day because I love so much but a lot about what he talks about having all sorts of local fruits. Last week I interviewed Jennifer Hill-Hart from  AERO (http://www.aeromt.org)  (Alternative Energy Resource Organization)  and when I mentioned my husband and my’s interest in biodiesel she recommended I get in touch with Bob Quinn. So I reached out to Bob and today he is here to share his story about his organic farm in Big Sandy! The Quinn Organic Farm (http://bobquinnorganicfarmer.com)  in Big Sandy, Montana, within the famed Golden Triangle. The experiments are conducted on small acreage in an effort to determine how a farm family can make a comfortable living on fewer acres. Current experiments include oilseeds for fuel and lubricants, storage and fresh vegetables, crop rotations, green manures, and weed management. Tell us a little about yourself. I was raised here in Big Sandy on the 2400 acre wheat and cattle ranch that my grandfather started in 1920 and my father continued to farm between 1948 – 1978. He was here 30 years. I’ve been here since 1978 with my family, so we’re pushing 40 years here pretty quick. Starting about 1983, I started a flour mill in Fort Benton, with the purpose of marketing our hard red winter wheat and spring wheat crops directly to whole grain bakers in California. We were just selling grain at the beginning. In 1984 we added organic grain that we bought from some organic farmers we found in North East corner of Montana. In 1985 we aded a flour mill. In ’88 we built our own cleaning plant, I had about 10 employees but it was about 50 miles away, so it was always a little bit of a management challenge because I still had my farm, I was farming full time. So finally sold it to an employee Andree Childs in 1999, he has expanded and done much better then I ever did, so I’m happy about that. I started converted to organic about 30 years ago starting experiments in 1985. Planted my first crop in 1986. I had my first 20 acre of certified grain in 1987. I was so excited about our experiments in 3 years transitioned the entire farm in 3 years, and by 1991 we were 100% certified organic and have been that way ever since! That’s gone very well for us. Very excited about it and excited to promote transition organic agriculture around Montana, the US, and around the world!!! That give a little introduction. About the same time in 1985-6 started the ancient grain product we market under the trade mark of KAMUT®. That has grown to the point we now contract with about 150 gardeners in MT, Alberta, Saskatchewan for about 80,000 acres. We sell the grain all over the world. The trademark means it’s always grown organically. Most people who have trouble eating modern wheat, have no trouble eating Kamut brand grain products. This is my son-in-law. How long have you been here? 4 years. Tell the folks if you love it or not. Yeah it’s great! Well I’m Jackie Beyer from the Organic Gardener Podcast Holey Moley Hello Everyone! Well Andrew came to me with an MBA not knowing anything about producing oil, and I said why don’t you try us out for a year, if you don’t like it you can go away with a business creation line on your resume and after 6 months he said he’s having more fun then any of his friends. We supply University of Montana, MSU, Botany Soap, conversation with some other big companies, we also do business with  Organic Valley (http://www.organicvalley.coop) , and a lot of other health food stores as well. Another thing we do is we give back the waste oil and give it back from restaurants and university of food services and we clean... Support this podcast

The Bears Bite Back I hate it when the inevitable happens! We've been talking for weeks about people entering closed areas during the most critical time of the year for black and grizzly bears to put on fat for the winter months. I've witnessed numerous people violating the closures and have called for a wildlife ambassador program for Canmore, similar in some ways to the Wildlife Guardians program that has been pioneered by Banff National Park. If you might be interested in getting involved in such a program, drop me a line at info@wardcameron.com or leave a comment in the show notes for this episode. This week, this all came to a head. This week an 18 year old Canmore woman decided to violate the closure in order to take her dog for a walk. Keep in mind that any time there is a close encounter with a bear and you have a dog, there is a chance that the encounter will escalate simply because a snarling dog can be perceived as a threat by a bear. She was walking the trail that runs beside the Rundle Forebay when the attack occurred. She met what is believed to have been a black bear, and the bear made contact resulting in some superficial injuries. She was treated at hospital and released…for now! For the sake of a walk to let her dog pee, she now faces both enormous fines and jail time. Her family and friends dispute the contention that she was in a closed area, stating that it was an open area connecting the Highline far connector along the reservoir. Alberta Environment and Parks insist however she was indeed in a closed area. The entire Rundle Forebay area is closed and it is well publicized within the local area. According to a story in the Rocky Mountain Outlook, Sherene Kaw, assistant director of communications for Alberta Justice and the Solicitor General indicated that the woman did NOT have bear spray and that, while the dog was on leash, she released the leash when the attack occurred. While it can't be definitively determined if the bear was a black or grizzly, no grizzlies were known to be feeding in the area, at least based upon trail camera evidence. This incident really showcases the need for a Wildlife Ambassador program in Canmore. In most years, it may only last for 6-8 weeks. The buffaloberries only last until the first frost, and then they all fall from the bush. Programs like this must operate in conjunction with programs focused on reducing attractants within the townsite. In 2015, when the buffaloberry crop failed, the town saw a huge influx of bears attracted to our flowering fruit trees. Since then, Banff, Jasper and Canmore have developed various programs designed to help reduce the problem. Buffaloberries are no different than any other crop. They need the right conditions at the right time, and if we don't get them, we get a failure in the crop. This year and last were bumper crops, but 2015 was an utter failure. This young woman is being publicly vilified. Her identity is currently being protected and I support that. The tendency of internet vigilantism has no role in this story. Her life is changing by the moment. It is NOT confirmed at this point, whether she is guilty, but let's set that aside for the moment. I truly believe that her point of view has shifted dramatically in the last 48 hours. Instead of vilifiying her, why not bring her into the conversation? It's easy to pour on hate but let's put this into perspective. She's a kid who, as the story currently stands, did a dumb thing. I personally would like to spend some time simply talking with her to understand her point of view at the time, and how it may have changed since that encounter. Protecting corridors is not going well. Social media is composed of adversarial groups unable to see any other viewpoint. I understand that completely. I find it difficult to comprehend the decisions that many people make when their actions do not match their stated beliefs. So let's talk. If found guilty, she faces the potential for large fines and even jail time. The fact that the spokesman for the Alberta government is in the Solicitor General's office indicates that there may be plans to make an example of her in the courts. So many of us that are expelling comments on social media are, well how do I say it, more experienced. How do we reach that younger generation which is far more likely to violate closures simply from a feeling of invincibility and entitlement? Maybe we just talk to them. I would love to talk with you. Please reach out. If you know her, please have her contact me. I will protect your privacy 100% because I think you have something to add to the conversation. Let's put away the pitchforks and look at this as another chance to build a bridge to a community that is an important part of the conversation. Just sayin' And if we're keeping score, this is not a new story. A colleague of mine that is interested in helping coordinate the wildlife guardian program pointed me to a Calgary Sun article from 2014 that looked into the same issue in Canmore. In this story, there was an aggressive bear was known to be in the area. It had, in a similar situation, had a minor infraction where it bit the finger of a Danish tourist. It was a minor encounter, but bears sell newspapers and the story was all over the media and airwaves. Just like this year, yellow flagging tape and signs indicated that the same areas were closed to access. And in case you're wondering, the same closures will happen next year, and the next, and the next. However in this case, Fish and Wildlife officers placed automated cameras at the main access points to the closed area. What did they find? In just 8 days they photographed some 60 people completely ignoring the closure and entering the restricted area. In one case, an entire family with Mom, Dad, one kid on a bike and a burley in tow went under the flagging tape closing a trail and continued on their merry way. This is the world we live in. it's time we embrace the conversation, create a visible wildlife guardian program, provide eyes and provide ears for Conservation Officers. We can help remove the potential for people to 'anonymously' enter closed areas. Guardians would be there for education and outreach. The goal would be to help Parks keep both people AND bears safe. We may find other areas where we can assist in keeping people and wildlife safe down the road. I'm a believer in dialogue and collaboration. I don't know how this will eventually manifest itself, but I'm willing to do what I can do help reduce the challenges we are experiencing this year in the future. Maybe Bear 148 will be one of the last to be removed from the landscape on our watch. Please remember, any time that Parks has to make a decision like the one they did with 148, it's a gut wrenching one. Nothing moves forward without their help and support. Let's build bridges towards viable corridors. Next up…Hells Bells Rogers. Hells Bells Rogers Last week I talked about railroad surveyor Walter Moberly. He was a pivotal figure in the early days of the Canadian Pacific construction. Another surveyor of note was American Major A.B. Rogers. Railroad surveyors were an independently minded lot. Each would select one route for the railroad - their route - and they would defend that to the death. "Nobody could possibly have a better route than the one I selected" However there were a few things that the surveyors agreed upon. One was that the Selkirk Mountains in the interior of British Columbia were impossible to put a train through. Even Walter Moberly planned to go around the Selkirks rather than through them. Well clearly we needed to find someone with an open mind - and we found that in Major A.B. Rogers. Rogers had earned his reputation as an Indian fighter during a Sioux uprising in 1862 during which he rose to the rank of Major. Later, while working as a surveyor for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, he earned a reputation as a man that could find the best route for a new rail line. He was not a well-loved man. He was described by the CPR's locating engineer, J.H.E. Secretan as: "A short, sharp, snappy little chap with long Dundreary whiskers. He was a master of picturesque profanity, who continually chewed tobacco and was an artist of expectoration. He wore overalls with pockets behind, and had a plug of tobacco in one pocket and a sea biscuit in the other, which was his idea of a season's provisions for an engineer." He also had a reputation for heading out a little short on supplies, if not faculties, and many of his expeditions returned on the verge of starvation. At one point, the general manager of the railroad, William Cornelius Van Horne tried to urge him to bring more supplies. The exchange apparently went as follows: Van Horne stated: "Look here, Major, I hear your men won't stay with you, they say you starve them." The Major replied with: "Tain't so, Van." Van Horne continued: "Well, I'm told you feed 'em on soup made out of hot water flavoured with old ham canvas covers." To this, Rogers replied: "Tain't so, Van. I didn't never have no hams!" James Jerome Hill, more well known as the builder of the Great Northern Railroad in the U.S. was also a part of the Canadian Pacific project and he hired Rogers to find a shorter route between Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Savona's Ferry in British Columbia. The only way to do that would be to go straight through the impenetrable Selkirks as well as through the southern Rockies. While the Rockies had seen more exploration both as part of the Railroad project, but also earlier as part of the fur trade, Rogers would need to link one of these passes with a route through the Selkirks. Jim Hill offered Rogers a bonus of $5,000 and his name on the pass if he could find a route through the Selkirks. Rogers scoured the journals of explorers and surveyors like Walter Moberly to look for some hint of where he might begin to explore for a potential pass. In Moberly's journal, it looked like there might be a possibility by following the Illecillewaet River. Rogers took note of a particular passage in Moberly's journal from 1865: "Friday, July 13th--Rained hard most of the day. Perry returned from his trip up the east fork of the Ille-cille-waut River. He did not reach the divide, but reported a low, wide valley as far as he went. His exploration has not settled the point whether it would be possible to get through the mountains by this valley but I fear not. He ought to have got on the divide, and his failure is a great disappointment to me. He reports a most difficult country to travel through, owing to fallen timber and underbrush of very thick growth..." In the spring of 1881, the Major, along with his favourite nephew Albert Rogers, and 10 Indians headed out towards the Selkirks. While Albert was his given name, the Major generally just referred to him as that Damn Little Cuss. It took them 22 days to reach Kamloops, and from there, the 'Gold Ranges', today known as the Monashees also had to be crossed before they even arrived at the start of the Selkirks. That ate up another 14 days. After spending another 22 days on a raft on the Columbia River, they finally reached the mouth of the Illecillewaet River where the real work began. Each man hoisted a 45-kg pack and they slowly tried to make their way upwards. They went through mile after mile of the most horrific plant to ever grace the planet Earth - Devil's club. If you've never had the pleasure of Devil's club, imagine a six to seven foot woody shrub with huge maple-style leaves and everything from the leaves to the trunk is armed with razor sharp thorns that can easily tear through a pair of canvas pants. So terrible was Devil's club that entire stretches of the railroad were rerouted to go around the worst patches. You couldn't even hack through with a machete. As they made their way through swamp and up vertical rock faces. Albert Rogers later stated that: "many a time I wished myself dead," and added that "the Indians were sicker then we, a good deal." The going never got easier. On numerous occassions, they had to cross bridges of snow suspeded 50 metres above the foaming water of the Illecillewaet River. By this time, their supplies were also beginning to run low, and the cold nights sent a chill right through their thin blankets. They clung to the lower slopes of a mountain that would later be named Mount Sir Donald after Donald Smith, one of the two chief financiers of the railway. "Being gaunt as greyhounds, with lungs and muscles of the best, we soon reached the timber-line, where the climbing became very difficult. We crawled along the ledges, getting toe-hold here and a finger hold there, keeping in the shade as much as possible and kicking toe-holes in the snow crust. When several hundred feet above the timber line, we followed a narrow ledge around a point that was exposed to the sun. (Here four Indians fell over the ledge.) It was in the evening when we reached the summit, very much exhausted. Crawling along this ridge, we came to a small ledge protected from the wind by a great perpendicular rock. Here we decided to wait until the crust again formed on the snow and the morning light enabled us to travel. At ten o'clock, it was still twilight, on the peaks, but the valleys below were filled with the deepest gloom. We wrapped ourselves in our blankets and nibbled at our dry meat and bannock, stamping our feet in the snow to keep them from freezing, and taking turns whipping each other with our pack straps to keep up circulation." Now doesn't that sound like a good time? In the end, they found a stream which split into two channels, with one branch heading west and the other east. It looked like they might have found a pass through the Selkirks, but a shortage of supplies once again forced them to retreat without exploring the western side of the divide. Rogers also realized that the survey crews were rapidly approaching the Bow River valley and he had still not explored the Kicking Horse Pass yet. One of the other things that most of the surveyors agreed upon was that the Bow River valley was the worst possible route to put a train. Not only did it force the line to traverse the Selkirks, but it also meant that they had to go through a horrible pass to the west of present-day Lake Louise, Alberta called the Kicking Horse. Despite these difficulties, this was the route finally chosen and that's a decision we've dissected for more than a century. The long and short of it was that this was the shortest route surveyed and the promoters hoped it would be the cheapest, but that turned out to be completely wrong. We also have to remember that this was a sovereign tool and this route was also the most southerly. They hoped that it would be far enough south to discourage American spur lines from moving into what was Canadian territory. At least in this case it proved true. With the rush towards the Kicking Horse Pass, Rogers party rerouted towards the Bow River valley. Now Rogers, was more of a pathfinder at this point and most of the proper surveyors, the men with the actual instruments necessary to lay out the line, were waiting at about the point visitors to the Rockies would enter the mountains as they drove west from Calgary. The Major came from the south and west and met up with them, and he sent that Damn Little Cuss to come up the Kicking Horse River from the west. He didn't think twice about sending Albert, a 21-year old greenhorn that had never before even been to the Rockies to attempt a task that had never before been accomplished by a non-native. Even the local natives avoided the dreary valley of the Kicking Horse because there was very little in the way of game to hunt - and therefore no real reason to hang about. Needless to say, Albert never showed. The Major paced like a caged animal. He said: "If anything happens to that Damn Little Cuss, I'll never show my face in St. Paul again." He sent out search parties in all directions with orders to fire a volley of shots in the air when they found him. One of those search parties descended the Kicking Horse Pass from the west and finally, they stumbled upon Albert Rogers…literally. Barely moving, and on the verge of starvation, his progress had slowed to a crawl. The only thing he had eaten in the previous 2 days was a porcupine that he had clubbed to death and picked clean right down to the quills. They picked up this pitiful sight, put him on a horse, made their way to the summit of the pass and fired a volley of shots in the air. Apparently the Major road in on his big white horse and as Wilson later recalled: "He plainly choked with emotion, then, as his face hardened again he took an extra-vicious tobacco juice shot at the nearest tree and almost snarled...'Well, you did get here did you, you damn little cuss?' There followed a second juice eruption and then, as he swung on his heel, the Major shot back over his shoulder; 'You're alright, are you, you damn little cuss?'" And with that Albert's face apparently exploded into a grin. He knew the old man better than anyone else and knew that he could never let his real emotions be seen. But the say the double-speed eruptions of tobacco juice from between his big sideburns said more about his emotional state than any words ever could have and nothing more was ever said about the matter. One of the men waiting for the Major was a young punk named Tom Wilson. Wilson was one of those characters that seemed to have the incredible knack of timing. He had the ability to be in the right places at the right time in history. He had begun his career as a Northwest Mounted Policeman and had joined the great march west of the mounties in 1875. He then resigned to join the first survey crews through the Rockies. He described Rogers as he arrived to meet the survey party: "His condition--dirty doesn't begin to describe it. His voluminous sideburns waved like flags in a breeze; his piercing eyes seemed to look and see through everything at once...Every few moments a stream of tobacco juice erupted from between the side-burns. I'll bet there were not many trees alongside the trail that had escaped that deadly tobacco juice aim." Rogers was a typical workaholic, and always had to accomplish more in a day then was practical. The season was getting late and so he pushed the survey crews to move faster. He then declared that he was going to ride out ahead to explore the route and asked for a volunteer. As Wilson again put it: "every man present had learned, in three days, to hate the Major with real hatred. He had no mercy on horses or men--he had none on himself. The labourers hated him for the way he drove them and the packers for that and the way he abused the horses--never gave their needs a thought." Wilson, in the end, agreed to accompany him. Eventually, they came to a river which was swollen and muddy with the spring runoff. Generally, during the summer season, river levels can rise dramatically during the daytime due to the increased pace of snowmelt during the sunny days. At night the water levels usually dropped as the cooler evening reduced the rate of melt. Tom suggested they wait for morning to cross and the old man laughed at him: "Afraid of it are you? Want the old man to show you how to ford it?" The Major spurred his horse into the river at which point the horse was pulled out from under him and he disappeared beneath the raging water. All Tom could do was grab a branch, stick it in the water where the old man had disappeared, go fishing and hope for the best. He was rewarded with a welcome tug and when the Major pulled himself onto the shoreline, all he could say was: "Blue Jesus! Light a fire and then get that damned horse. Blue Jesus, it's cold!" From that point on, when the river would be dirty and muddy with the spring runoff, the surveyors would joke that it was dirty because the old man must be having another bath. In fact to this day it's still known as Bath Creek on maps. Wilson left the survey early this year, swearing never to come back to these God forsaken hills. Rogers laughed at him saying: "You may think you're not coming back but you'll be here next year and I'll be looking for you," All that winter, Tom tried to fight something that just seemed to be tugging at him. Have you ever noticed how sometimes you choose life, and sometimes life chooses you. Before Tom knew what had happened, he found himself back in Fort Benton signing up for one more year on the survey. Tom was hired to pack supplies from present-day Canmore, to the summit of the Kicking Horse Pass. In August of that year, Tom was camped near to present-day village of Lake Louise. He had been hearing the sound of thunder under a clear blue sky. When he met some Stoney Natives he asked them what the sound was: On individual by the name of Gold-seeker told him that it was avalanches off of Snow Mountain high above the Lake of Little Fishes. The next day Tom had the native take him up to the lake and as he became the first non-native to lay eyes on what we now call Lake Louise, he wrote in his journal: "As God is my judge, I never in all my explorations saw such a matchless scene." Tom called the lake Emerald Lake because of its beautiful colour, but the railroad promptly changed the name to Lake Louise after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. This also gives you an idea of where Alberta takes its name as well. She was married to the Governor General of Canada. The very next day, Tom bumped into the Major for the very first time that year and the old man let out a guffaw: "Blue Jesus! I knew you'd be back. I knew you'd be back. You'll never leave these mountains again as long as you live. They've got you now." He was right. Tom was on hand for the hammering of the last spike. You can see his stetson and mustache peering above the crowd from the back in the most iconic photograph of the event. He then went on to start the first guiding operation in the Canadian Rockies and gave many of the areas other enduring guides their start. He lived into the 1930s and is buried in the little cemetery in the town of Banff. Also this summer, Rogers route through the Selkirks was confirmed, and for breaching the final barrier for the Canadian Pacific Railway, he received his bonus of $5,000. He never cashed the cheque. When the general manager of the railroad, William Cornelius Van Horne cornered him to find out why he hadn't cashed it, he blurted out: "What! Cash the cheque? I wouldn't take a hundred thousand dollars for it. It is framed and hangs in my brother's house in Waterville, Minnesota, where my nephews and nieces can see it. I'm not in this for the money." Rogers more than most, really embodied what drove these surveyors. It was not money, it was immortality, and he got that in the naming of Rogers Pass. Next week, I'll look at the challenges in confirming his route as well as the difficulties that the Kicking Horse Pass would present to the railroad.

Contrary to popular belief, Benton Avenue in Helena is not the same as the road from Fort Benton.

Something has happened between Bohnda and her mother, and Dockery offers his support and advice.  Dockery has his first client, and makes plans to go to Fort Benton.  It's not time, we learn, "to spill the beans."

MHS Museum technician Vic Reiman recounts the experiences of “Major” John Owen, who settled in the Bitterroot Valley in 1850 and, for the next twenty years, kept journals detailing his daily life. Owen made numerous trading trips throughout the region, and today his accounts of those travels provide an unparalleled source of information about western Montana’s residents and events during the 1850s.

Great Falls historian Ken Robison tells the story behind a Christmas 1861 address given by Captain John Mullan to the “Historical and Geographical Society” assembled at Fort Owen. Like his titular subjects, Mullan had contributed directly to the dream of a water and overland “Northwest Passage” by constructing a 624-mile Military Wagon Road from Fort Walla Walla, Washington, to Fort Benton in 1860.

World Footprints visits Havre, Malta and Glasgow today (Montana Journey #2). No, we’re not going to Europe, but we’ll be taking you through these towns in Montana for the final leg of our first great Montana journey. Our stops on this trip also included Fort Peck and Fort Benton – the birthplace of Montana. We will be sharing everything from Dinosaur digging in Malta to fisheries in Ft. Peck, the 2,000 year old buffalo jump in Havre, the fur trading post in Ft. Benton, various museum collections and lots of history in between. Montana is a state of great eco-diversity, natural resources, cultural heritage and rich history and we are pleased to share with you one of our favorite destinations.

World Footprints visits Havre, Malta and Glasgow today  (Montana Journey #2).  No, we’re not going to Europe, but we’ll be taking you through these towns in Montana for the final leg of our first great Montana journey.  Our stops on this trip also included Fort Peck and Fort Benton – the birthplace of Montana.  We will be sharing everything from Dinosaur digging in Malta to fisheries in Ft. Peck, the 2,000 year old buffalo jump in Havre, the fur trading post in Ft. Benton, various museum collections and lots of history in between. Montana is a state of great eco-diversity, natural resources, cultural heritage and rich history and we are pleased to share with you one of our favorite destinations.

  World Footprints visits Havre, Malta and Glasgow today.  No, we’re not going to Europe, but we’ll be taking you through these towns in Montana for the final leg of our great Montana journey.  Our stops on this trip also included Fort Peck and Fort Benton – the birthplace of Montana.  We will be sharing everything from Dinosaur digging in Malta to fisheries in Ft. Peck, the 2,000 year old buffalo jump in Havre, the fur trading post in Ft. Benton, various museum collections and lots of history in between. Montana is a state of great eco-diversity, natural resources, cultural heritage and rich history and we are pleased to share with you one of our favorite destinations.

World Footprints visits Havre, Malta and Glasgow today.  No, we’re not going to Europe, but we’ll be taking you through these towns in Montana for the final leg of our great Montana journey.  Our stops on this trip also included Fort Peck and Fort Benton – the birthplace of Montana.  We will be sharing everything from Dinosaur digging in Malta to fisheries in Ft. Peck, the 2,000 year old buffalo jump in Havre, the fur trading post in Ft. Benton, various museum collections and lots of history in between. Montana is a state of great eco-diversity, natural resources, cultural heritage and rich history and we are pleased to share with you one of our favorite destinations.