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Old Fort Benton, Montana PB 1997 W13. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1997. Softcover, 32 pages. Old Fort Benton, Montana : Early Fur Trading Post with Blackfoot Indians and Head of Navigation on the Missouri River. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1997.Old Fort Benton, Montana: Early Fur Trading Post with Blackfoot Indians and Head of Navigation on the Missouri River. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1997. Softcover, 32 pages. Old Fort Benton in Benton, Montana, is a reconstructed 19th‑century fur-trade and frontier military post on the Missouri River. It was an important steamboat landing and supply hub for the Upper Missouri, serving traders, the U.S. Army, and westward settlers, and today operates as a museum site interpreting that frontier history.