Bücher von W. Raymond Wood

A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. This is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.

There is especially good documentation of the dealings between the Mandans and Hidatsas and the whites between 1790 to 1806, when several traders visited the Indian villages and recorded their experiences in lively narratives. In this book are presented new, dependable, annotated transcriptions of five of the most important of these documents.