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unusual facts about Fort Peck


Scobey, Montana

The city was named by local rancher Mansfield Daniels, after whom Daniels County is named, for his friend Major Charles Richardson Anderson Scobey, a cattleman from the Glendive area who served as a Montana Territory legislator and an Indian agent at Fort Peck and Poplar.


George Dern

Under the ageis of the PWA, the Corps also built such projects as the Bonneville and Fort Peck dams; and began the aborted "Quoddy" Dam project.


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Fort Peck Dam

Fort Peck Dam is probably best known for being the subject of a photograph of the spillway taken by Margaret Bourke-White while still under construction that was the cover photo of the first issue of Life magazine on November 23, 1936.

Murder of Kimberly Nees

Nees, a seventeen-year-old graduating senior, was bludgeoned to death while in her pickup near the Poplar River on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Toston Dam

In 2010, FWP officials announced that non-native milfoil had invaded Toston Reservoir and Fort Peck Dam Reservoir.