Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri, Vol. 2 of 2: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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CHAPTER XIII. (1846-47.) FORT LOUIS AXD THENCE TO ST. LOUIS. EARLV in the spring [of 1846J Mr. rv!cKenzie left on a Mackinaw boat for St. Louis. Nothing of importance took place after his departure until the Company's steamer again arrived, at its usual time, :Mr. Honore Picotte in charge. Mr. Culbertson, who went up a previol1s summer [in r8441, had burned down Fort Chardon, and gone on with his outfit, according to understanding, to build another post.1 He had selected, for that purpose, a site five or six miles above Benton, on the south side of the 1Iissouri, named it Fort Louis, and left Mr. Clark in charge. From what motive I cannot say, :Mr. Picotte wanted him removed, and on that account arrang'ed with me to go up with the outfit and take charge. I was then I Vc thus learn that the end of Fort Chardon, near Jnrlith river, and the beginning of Fort Louis, on the ~nssouri above the future Benton, were almost simultaneous, in the summer of 1844. '37

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CONTENTS; VOLUME II; CHA PT ER XI II; ( 184&-47 ); FORT LoUIS, AND THEr>CE TO ST LoUIS; Fort Chardon Burned and Fort Louis Established in )844-; Cordelling up the Missouri-Slow }>rogress-~lalco1rn; Clark-Fort Louis Reached in Sevcllty Days-Father; De Srnet-A Question of Precedence-Return to Fort; Union-At Odds with the A F Co-James Kipp-:Fort; Clark-Son of the Star-Friendly Arickara PartisanFort; Pierre-Interview with Honore Picotte-Satisfactory; Arrangements-l{caching the States-St Joseph-; PAC!!;; St Louis-Return to Fort Union, 237; CHAPTER XIV; (1847-49'); FOllT DENTO'" AND ELSEWHERE; Reinstated at Fort Union-Attacked by Sioux-Jnmes; Kipp-Iron-eyed Dog Killed-Harvey's OppositionMr; Husband-Sent to an Outpost-An Indian in Fu!l; Mourning-New Partnership Formed, with Jamcs Bmguicre-; To Trade with the Flatheads-Fort Denton; Founded in [B46--Fort LOllis Abandoned Early in 1847; -Start for Fort Benton-Little Robes, a Band of; vi COXT

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