The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . ican trading-fort built inthe Sioux country, and was occupied as early as1803. It was of logs, and was seventy feet square,with bastions. The Early Trading-Posts The mouth of what is now called Bad River,formerly the Little Missouri, was prolific of trad-ing-posts. This was the nearest point on the Mis-souri River to the Black Hills and the upper PlatteValley. When the first fort was established is un-known, but the more famous in the early days wereForts Tecumseh and Pierre. The latter was quit
The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . ican trading-fort built inthe Sioux country, and was occupied as early as1803. It was of logs, and was seventy feet square,with bastions. The Early Trading-Posts The mouth of what is now called Bad River,formerly the Little Missouri, was prolific of trad-ing-posts. This was the nearest point on the Mis-souri River to the Black Hills and the upper PlatteValley. When the first fort was established is un-known, but the more famous in the early days wereForts Tecumseh and Pierre. The latter was quiteextensive, containing about two and a half acres ofland. Scattered throughout the Sioux country nu-merous small posts were built. There were three inthe valley of the James, besides one at the forks andone at the mouth of the Cheyenne, one at the Ari-cara villages, and others on Cherry, White, and Ni-obrara Rivers. These, however, were not importantor permanent structures. Near the Mandans wereseveral forts, the earliest of which was built byLewis and Clark in 1804, while but little later [92]. THE FUR-TRADERS Manuel Lisa occupied the ground. His post laterbecame known as Fort Vanderburgh. Beyond thispoint we need not go up the Missouri except tomention the largest and most important of all thetrading-forts, Fort Union^ at the mouth of the Yel-lowstone. Probably this was first built in October,1828. In size it was two hundred and forty by twohundred and twenty feet, surrounded by a palisadea foot thick and twenty feet high. The bastionswere of stone, surmounted by pyramidal roofs, thewalls pierced for defence. A very large number ofmen were employed here, and Indians journeyedfrom great distances to trade. Forts along the Eastern Base of the Rockies. Leaving this northern mountain country andpassing southward, we will note briefly those trad-ing posts established along the eastern base of theRockies, whose dealings were principally with theIndians of the Plains. The Portuguese
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