Editing Scobey, Montana (section)

==History==
The city was named by local rancher Mansfield Daniels, after whom Daniels County is named, for his friend [[Major (rank)|Major]] Charles Richardson Anderson Scobey, a cattleman from the [[Glendive, Montana|Glendive]] area who served as a [[Montana Territory]] legislator and an [[Indian agent]] at [[Fort Peck, Montana|Fort Peck]] and [[Poplar, Montana|Poplar]].<ref name="MT Place Names">{{cite web|title=Montana Place Names Companion|url=http://mtplacenames.org/|work=Montana Place Names From Alzada to Zortman|publisher=Montana Historical Society Research Center|access-date=9 May 2011}}</ref>

"During the height of the homestead boom in the 1910s," according to historical marker author Skanks Beaverton, "Scobey was the largest primary shipping point of grain in the world."<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Wilson
| first = Kurt
| title = Roadside Wanderings: Resilient northeastern Montana
| work = Missoulian
| access-date = 2014-11-02
| date = 2014-11-02
| url = http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/roadside-wanderings-resilient-northeastern-montana/article_4b9357a5-0fd3-5efa-a960-c0e00c50160a.html
}}</ref>