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Fur Trading Story of Section's Gradual Rise Told
The article traces fur traders who opened posts from Fort Floyd to Fort Union shaping northwest settlement. It details Kenneth McKenzie and the American Fur company policy, Blackfeet and Piegan diplomacy, fort designs, key outposts like Fort Assinniboine and Fort Benton, rival posts, and the shift of trade toward the Missouri and Yellowstone regions with concluding credits to Chittenden and Lt. Bradley.
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Gradual Ae
M. BE. Plassmann
Northwest
Missouri
Fort Floyd
Yellowstone
Fort Union
Kenneth McKenzie
Assinniboines
Hudson’s Bay Company
McKenzie
Northwest Company
American Fur Company
St. Louis Markes
Mackinaws
Hudson's Bay
Saskatchewan
Rockies
Berger
Piegan Land
Hudson's Bay Company
Bourgeois
Catlin
North Dakota-Montana
Major Brooke
Montana
United States
Brooke
Sublette & Co
Fort William
Fort Buford
Fort Mortimer
Sublette
Sublette & Campbell
Assinniboine
Fort Uniton
Fort Assinniboine
Fort Jackson
Poplar River
Chardon
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Marias
Harvey
Brule Bottom
Alexander Culbertson
Shonkin
Judith
Culbertson
Fort Benton
Pablois Island
Fort Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
Thomas Benton
Bradley
Missouri Fur Company
Gros Ventres
Prairie
Bras- Sau
Manuel Lisa
Big Horn
Crow Country
Lisa
Joshus Pilcher
Benton
Fort Manuel
Ashley & Henry Bulld
Ashley & Henry
Samuel Tullock
Fort Cass
Yel
Lowstone
Fort van Buren
Tongue River
Fort Alexander
Rosebud
Fox, Livingstone & Co
Little Big Horn
Fort Sarpy
John B. Sarpy
James Bradley
Chittenden
Union
Missouri River
Alexander Calbertson