James L. Fisk

James Liberty Fisk (ca. 1835 – 1902) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who promoted settlement of the western United States. He led four expeditions from Minnesota to Montana in the 1860s, before resigning his commission and settling there himself.

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