"So this is Fort Macleod, for which I have come two thousand miles or more!" It certainly had the marks of an old-time trading post, decidedly the worse for wear.
JDH - When the West was Young
John D. Higinbotham set up his first drug store on the island site of Fort Macleod in 1884.
JDH in 1884 on horse "Chester"
Trek students' first effort to get on the island site of the first Fort Macleod in 1973 ended in failure.
Later in the year, the river was down and we met with success.
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