Bicentennial Story #27-Stage Station at Young Mans Butte-I

Bicentennial Story #27-Stage Station at Young Mans Butte-I

Relay station established near Young Mans Butte along the Fort Keogh mail route in 1878.

6/6/1975

3/4/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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English

BS-027

Young Mans Butte, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

In 1878 the Fort Keogh Mail Route was established between Bismarck and Miles City. Relay stations were established every 15 to 25 miles, and stock tenders enticed to man the stations in this Indian country. The springs and the oak-filled ravine near Young Man's Butte was an important station, one where travelers could find lodging and drivers stay after a day's run from Fort Lincoln. The first stocktenders Sherman and W.A. Slater, lived in a dug-out deep in the ravine, but later the Government built a large log house, a long log barn and a blacksmith shop a few rod's south. In 1879 and 1880 the stage station became a veritable "city" when railroad builders and a detachment of soldiers camped on the site.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 27, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

NDH, Vol. 21, p. 109

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