Shelby MT forgotten memorial (#0353)

Continuing my focus on forgotten memorials, here's one that seems to have been forgotten (see the adjacent picture. The sign describes the Whoop Up trail, a trail that ran from Ft. Benton (later pictures) to Ft. Whoop Up, which is in Alberta.

In the late 1800's and before the railroads, Ft Benton was the farthest that goods could be shipped by boat up the Missouri, from there goods (and people) to northern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada traveled by wagon. The park and monument were developed and erected by a local Boy Scout troop in 1968.