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The Grant–Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, created in 1972, commemorates the Western cattle industry from its 1850s inception through recent times. The original ranch was established in 1862 by a Canadian fur trader, Johnny Grant, at Cottonwood Creek, Montana (future site of Deer Lodge, Montana), along the banks of the Clark Fork river ...
The winter of 1886–1887, also known as the Big Die-Up, was extremely harsh for much of continental North America, especially the United States. Although it affected other regions in the country, it is most known for its effects on the Western United States and its cattle industry. This winter marked the end of the open range era and led to ...
Conrad Kohrs, born Carsten Conrad Kohrs (August 5, 1835 – 23 July 1920) was a Montana cattle rancher (cattle baron) and politician. Biography [ edit ] He was born in Holstein , a province that was ethnically and culturally German and part of the German Confederation but ruled at the time in personal union by Denmark .
Background An alleged photograph of Crazy Horse, although its authenticity is doubtful General George Crook. After their victory in Red Cloud's War and with the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), the Lakota and their Northern Cheyenne allies were allocated a reservation including the Black Hills, in Dakota Territory and a large area of "unceded territory" in what became Montana and ...
U.S. President Richard Nixon signs An Act to authorize the establishment of the Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in the State of Montana, and for other purposes. 1970: April 1: The 1970 United States Census enumerates the population of the State of Montana, later determined to be 694,409, an increase of 2.9% since the 1960 United States ...
Grant–Kohrs Ranch: Montana: 1,618.43 acres (6.5496 km 2) Originally established for fur trading in 1862, this ranch would eventually grow to cover over ten million acres of Powell County, Montana under the ownership of cattle baron Conrad Kohrs. Though the current-day park is only 1,618 acres, it illustrates the role of cattlemen in American ...
This was when Conrad Kohrs purchased a ranch from Johnny Grant that is now called the Grant-Kohrs Ranch, a National Historic Site and Federal Park. For a history of the river and the people, see Grant-Kohrs family and history of Clark Fork River region. The Clark Fork and the Blackfoot River experienced a record flood in 1908.
Deer Lodge is also the location of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, dedicated to the interpretation of the frontier cattle ranching era. This site was the home of Conrad Kohrs, one of the famous "Cattle Kings" of Montana whose land holdings once stretched over a million acres (4,000 km 2) of Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada.