Fort Buford and the Fort Union Trading Post
June 13th 2009 We took a side trip out of Williston to visit a couple of historic sites just a few miles up the Missouri River from town.
Near the Montana border, the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers converge. Fort Buford was established in 1866 to guard and protect the strategic confluence of these rivers, both important transportation and trade routes of the early west. From this fort the army fought the
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