Reed Point, Montana

Reed Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stillwater County, Montana, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all land.

After a short sojourn around Spearfish, South Dakota, they joined an expedition going to the Big Horn and Yellowstone valley in the summer of 1877.

The caravan was attacked by Native Americans while it was still in the Black Hills country, and several of its members were killed.

The party reached the Yellowstone River about the time Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe made their raid through this section and fought the Battle of Canyon Creek.

He narrowly escaped death by drowning in a freshet of Pryor Creek, but his health was so impaired that he died several months later.

The young and widowed Alice Reed made a living by washing clothes until, in April, 1881, she remarried to John Schock, a Civil War veteran who was in charge of the McAdow Ferry at Coulson.

Stillwater County map