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especially in Fort Bidwell! The families who stayed eventually intermarried Camp Bidwell > Fort Bidwell During the influx of settlers and the driving out of Native tribes, Bidwell began as a military outpost and fort positioned to help protect ranchers and farmers along the immigrant trail. After a brief period of ascendancy, Ft. Bidwell's development stalled. The town never grew into a we...