High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The historic town of Rocky Point was on the south side of the Missouri River in Fergus County, Montana in the Missouri Breaks. Rocky Point was located at a natural ford on the Missouri River. In prehistoric times American bisons trailed down through the breaks to Rocky Point to cross the river. During the Missouri River steamboat era (1860s to 1880s), the buffalo trail system leading to and from the ford caused Rocky Point to become a steamboat landing, which received freight for mining camps in the Judith Mountains (to the south) and in the Little Rocky Mountains (to the north) and also for Fort Maginnis built in 1880. In the 1870s and 1880s, Rocky Point had a store, hotel, 2 saloons, a feed stable, a blacksmith shop and a ferry. Due to its remote location in the Missouri Breaks, in the 1870s and 1880s Rocky Point became a refuge for outlaws who turned to rustling cattle and horses until rancher/vigilantes took punitive action in 1884. From...

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