1 Jan 1844 Jahr - Fort Chardon established

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Francis Chardon and Alexander Harvey constructed a trading post near here. Chardon had a reputation as an able and unscrupulous individual, while Harvey was "one of the most abandoned desperados known to the fur trade". The previous year, the men participated in the massacre of many innocent Blackfeet
Indians who had come to Fort McKenzie at the mouth of the Marias River to trade. The resulting hostility directed to Chardon and Harvey forced the men to abandon that
post and build a new one, Fort Chardon. The Blackfeet, however, would not trade at the new fort and, instead, placed it under siege. For several months, the Indians stole the post's horses, killed it's (sic) cattle, and murdered employees who foolishly got caught alone
outside the stockade. Chardon had no furs to send downriver to his boss, Alexander Culbertson, at Fort Union. Culbertson fired the men and made peace with the Blackfeet. He closed Fort Chardon and burned it to the ground. Trade was re-established with the Blackfeet at a new trading post located upriver; Chardon and Harvey barely escaped with their lives.

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