. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ippi River. From Prairie du Chien they were forwarded up theMississippi by keel-boats and by smaller boats to other points. Fort George, twenty-one miles below Fort Pierre, was built by Ebbitt &Cutting in 1842, for Fox, Livingston & Company, and like the other establish-ments became a part of the American Fur Companys trade monopoly. COLTER AND FINK: CHARACTER SKETCHES Colter and Fink are samples of the characters who sought the frontier underthe stimulating influence of the fur trade, or to take advantage of the oppor-tunity to
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ippi River. From Prairie du Chien they were forwarded up theMississippi by keel-boats and by smaller boats to other points. Fort George, twenty-one miles below Fort Pierre, was built by Ebbitt &Cutting in 1842, for Fox, Livingston & Company, and like the other establish-ments became a part of the American Fur Companys trade monopoly. COLTER AND FINK: CHARACTER SKETCHES Colter and Fink are samples of the characters who sought the frontier underthe stimulating influence of the fur trade, or to take advantage of the oppor-tunity to get beyond the restraint of law. JOHN colters RACE FOR LIFE John Colter was a soldier with the Lewis and Clark expedition, and re-quested and received his discharge on his return to the Mandan villages, desiringto remain in the Indian country. He was the first to explore the headwaters ofthe Yellowstone. At one time he traveled over five hundred miles among the Indians, returningunharmed, but on another occasion he was robbed of all his clothing and of. Photo by Sweet. Miiiiieapnlis VIEW OF MINOT IN 1887
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