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Manuel Lisa Builds First White Post in Montana 1807 at Yellowstone
This article outlines Manuel Lisa's 1807 fort at the Yellowstone mouth of the Bighorn, predating David Thompson's Seelish house near Thompson Falls by over a year. It notes Lisa's role in early Northwest fur trade, ties to William Clark, Colter, and Lewis and Clark era conflicts, and the fort as a pivotal, though now largely vanished, landmark near Big Horn.
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St. Louis
Montana
Yellowstone River
the Bighorn
David Thompson
Seelish
Thompson Falls
David Hilger
Montana State Historical Society
Manuel Lisa
Northwest
Mr. Hilger
Sergeant Floyd
Yellowstone
Missouri
Missouri River
William Clark
Big Horn
Northwest Company
Platte River
John Colter
Lisa
Colter
George Drewyer
John Potts
Yellowstone Park
Potts
Three Forks Country
Gallatin Valley
Col
Thomas James
James
Big Horn River
Three Forks
Andrew Henry
Pierre Menard
United States
Mississippi
Fort Manuel
Northern Pacific
Montana Pioneer Society
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dixon
Handcock
Mandan
Platte
Jubuns
O. C. Seltzer
Great Falls
Fort Manuel Lisa
Hysham
Hudson Bay
Fort Seelish
West