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Lisa and Manuel Fort: First Montana Trading Post Saga
In 1807 Manuel Lisa and partners built Fort Manuel at the Yellowstone and Big Horn junction as the first American trading post in the upper Missouri. Lisa used diplomacy with tribes, faced harsh river dangers, and recruited John Colter joining the expedition.
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St. Lewis
United States
Lewis and Clark
Rockies
Missouri
St. Louis
West
Lisa
Manuel ‘Lisa
Upper
Louisiana
Cortez
Lower
William Morrison
Pierre Menard
Kaskaskia, II
Menard Dé Morrison
Montana
Missouri Historical Society
George Drouillard
Drouillard
Osage River
Antoinne Bisonette
Colter
The
Platte
John Colter
Pacific
Dickson
Hancock
Blackfeet
Yellowstone National Park
Redmen
Assinniboines
Yellowstone
Fort Union
Big Horn River
Fort Manuel
Big Horn
State of
Fort Lisa
Manuel
Hysham
Mont
Upper River Country
Fort
James
Thomas James
Three Forks
Missouri River
Milk River
Shehaka
Missouri Fur Co
Mandans
Washington
Jefferson
Kaskaskia
Esan
Mandan
Miller
McDaniel
Three Forks of the
Gallatin City
Madison
Dakotas
Fort Manuel Lisa