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Bonneville’s Missouri Start to an Illustrious Fur Quest
In May 1832 Fort Osage Missouri witnessed Captain Benjamin L Eulalie de Bonneville depart with 110 men and 20 ox wagon trains heading to the Rockies. The expedition became a defining fur trade venture amid fierce competition and distant rendezvous dynamics shaping Bonneville’s three-year mission and later revival in the U S Army.
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Booneville
Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Fort Osage
Benjamin L. Eulalie de Bonneville
Rocky Mountains
Captan Bonneville
Platte
Sweetwater
South Pass
Green River
Bonneville
Irving
Smith
Jackson
Sublett
Rocky Mountain
Columbia River
Captain Bonneville
Joseph Beddeford Walker
Walker
Great Salt Lake
Pacific
High Sierras
Monterey
California
Spanish California
Sierras
Deserts
Humboldt
Snake
Bear River
Mountains
U.S Army