End of An Era

Fort Whoop-Up continued as a small trading post and stage coach stop on the Whoop-Up trail until the railroad diminished its importance. It then became a ranch.  The police remained at the Fort until 1892, even after a fire in 1888 destroyed the building they rented. After Akers death in 1893, the abandoned Fort fell into disrepair. Finally in 1915, all that remained was some pile of stones and depressions where fireplaces and cellars had been.

The Blackfoot Comment

The contact with the white people had many unhappy effects on our people. Once we had been powerful and independent. As the buffalo were wiped out, we began to depend more and more on the white man’s goods. Please click here to continue on with the Fort Whoop-Up era .