fort union

Interview with Eric Jay Dolin

January 24, 2011

Eric Jay Dolin, the author of Fur, Fortune and Empire, the Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, sat down with the Frontier Traveler to discuss the impact of the fur trade on the history of America. FT: After writing Leviathan, did you see a similarity between the plight of the whale and the [...]

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Ft. Union, New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Trail

December 8, 2008

Fort Union was established in 1851 as the guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. During it’s forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest. The largest visible network [...]

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Ft. Union, North Dakota

November 12, 2008

Fort Union Trading Post was the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri from 1828 to 1867. At this post, the Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibway, Blackfeet, Hidatsa, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth. Fort Union Trading Post was [...]

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