Fort Union and Fort Buford
Before Lewis and Clark, Fort Union created commerce between tribes and explorers. Fort Buford, a couple miles away was a rough place after the Civil War.
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Fort Union , North Dakota
Tour the partially reconstructed fort and walk where many famous folk from several countries and cultures walked, folk such as Kenneth McKenzie, Alexander & Natawista Culbertson, Father Pierre DeSmet, Sitting Bull, Karl Bodmer, and Jim Bridger.
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. http://www.beautifulbadlandsnd.com
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