Old Fort Benton

Historic Old Fort Benton

Experience the fur and buffalo robe trade of the 1850’s at Historic Old Fort Benton, Montana. Here the Blackfeet and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth. Tour the Fort and see rooms filled with period furnishings, the trade store with buffalo robes, beads, trinkets, blankets and other period trade goods, the warehouse with its fur trade era collections, and the blacksmith & carpenters shop. New for 2012, the newly reconstructed Bourgeois House or Chief Traders residence will be open for visitors. The Bourgeois House is home to the Starr Gallery which features Karl Bodmer’s Travels Into The Interior of North America aquatint collection, and Robert Scriver’s No More Buffalo Collection. Our knowledgeable staff will assist you in your journey of discovery of the Fort that became the most important robe trading post on the Upper Missouri River.