"Black Jack" Traditional Cache
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This is an easy cache for the traveler. Along the highway between Havre and Great Falls Montana. It does get drifted over with deep snow sometimes.
Fort Assiniboine began contruction "On May 4 1879, the 18th Infantry arrived at Coal Banks Montana, from stations in Kentucky" they lost no time in constructing Montana's most substantial fort. Supplies for the fort were brought by wagon from Coal Banks landing on the Missouri River. A kiln was built nearby and the bricks for the forts, 104 buildings where made on the site. Several of the buildings can still be viewed from the cache location.
Named for the Assiniboine Indians whose name means "stone boilers" for their method of cooking meat by lowering very hot stones into pots or bladders of water and meat thus cooking it.
In 1896 the Tenth Cavalry, a Negro or Buffalo Soldier regiment, was stationed there with Lt. John Joseph Pershing in command. Otherwise known as "Black Jack" Pershing for commanding a Black regiment. General Pershing later became Supreme Commander of American troops in World War I. He was a true American hero and great leader of our troops.
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