The Wolf Point Bridge emerged from many years of lobbying by Roosevelt and McCone county citizens led by Wolf Point businessman William Young. In 1927, the Montana Highway Commission and Bureau of Public Roads approved the project, and the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company of Leavenworth, Kansas, began construction in 1929. The company’s camp on the north bank of the river included a powerhouse, workshops, office, dance hall, bunkhouse, and several small cottages for workers’ families, and for most of 1929 and 1930 the site was the most popular tourist attraction in northeastern Montana. The bridge was dedicated on July 9, 1930, with speeches, bands, a float, cowboys, a daylight fireworks show, and a blessing by tribal elders from the Fort Peck Reservation before a crowd of perhaps 15,000 people. The Wolf Point Bridge is the longest and most massive through truss in Montana, measuring 1,074 feet long, containing 1,150 tons of steel, and featuring the state’s longest 400-foot span. At its dedication in 1930, it was called “A memorial to those whose lives have been lost in the Missouri and a monument to those whose cooperation made possible its erection.”