Born to an Episcopalian family in Marysville, Kansas, Hardin started playing a set of drums that he made from a cardboard box at the age of five.His family relocated to Wyoming and his father opened a trading post at Fort Bridger.Hardin attended school in a couple of small towns....
In 1884, health problems brought him to the Arizona Territory.During the next four years, he ran a cattle business with his brother Ben, and operated the trading post at Fort Apache....
While at Fort Laramie, the vanguard company was joined by members of the Mormon Battalion, who had been excused due to illness and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado, and a group of Church members from Mississippi.At this point, the now larger company took the established Oregon Trail toward the trading post at Fort Bridger....
After the British took over New France, he entered the fur trade and operated a trading post at Fort Michilimackinac.
They established a New Sweden Company and, following much negotiation, he led a group under the flag of Sweden to the Delaware River in 1638.They established a trading post at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware.Minuit claimed possession of the western side of the Delaware River, saying he had found no European settlement there....
A secondary goal of the colony was to help defend Alta California against perceived Russian colonial ambitions from the trading post at Fort Ross.Santa Anna wrote to Mexico City saying that he no longer wanted to be president of Mexico, but to use his military experience to fight off the foreign invasion of Mexico....
The series of minor Engagements on Lake Huron left the British in control of the lake and thus of the Old Northwest for the latter stages of the War of 1812.The British had captured the important American trading post at Fort Mackinac by surprise in the Siege of Fort Mackinac early in the war.Large numbers of Indians rallied to the British, who subsequently forced the surrender of an American army at the Siege of Detroit....
In 1803, Robidoux's father sent him to organize a trading post at Fort Dearborn, the site of present-day Chicago.His early success there irritated other traders, who engaged Indians to harass the young man and eventually drive him from the area....
During the testimony Marsh testified that Belknap and both his wives had accepted money in exchange for the lucrative trading post at Fort Sill.The scandal was particularly upsetting, in this Victorian age, since it involved women....
The two traveled east again in 1797 to visit the new president, John Adams.When Thomas Jefferson became the United States' third president, Wells requested that he establish a trading post at Fort Wayne to encourage friendly relations with the area natives.Jefferson did establish the post, but appointed John Johnston as manager....
Among the more helpful tribal members he reported encountering was a negro who claimed to have been on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and who may have been the explorer-slave York.In 1835 Leonard returned to Independence, Missouri with enough wealth in furs to establish a store and trading post at Fort Osage.He continued to trade along the river for the rest of his life....
This violated Piscataway tribal customs, and also conflicted with Lord Baltimore's land grant, which had given rise to the English colony in the first place.Moreover, Claiborne's erstwhile Susquehannock trading partners took their furs to the new Swedish trading post at Fort Christina.Nevertheless, Giles and young Mary stayed together, moving to Chopawamsic Island in the Potomac River in 1647, then the following year to the Colony of Virginia in what is now the Northern Neck near Aquia, Virginia....
John Jacob's fur trading company established a Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria in 1811, the first United States community on the Pacific coast.He financed the overland Astor Expedition in 1810-1812 to reach the outpost, which was in the then-disputed Oregon Country....
Even though the British had established a trading post at Fort William (in modern day Kolkata), Bengal Presidency acquired its proper form after the Battle of Buxar in 1764.As an outcome of the Indian defeat, Shuja-ud-Daula of Oudh and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II signed the Treaty of Allahabad, granting the East India Company rights to collect revenues from large parts of eastern India....
During the Sibleys' time at Fort Osage, Mary began teaching the children at the fort.In 1813, Sibley opened a temporary trading post at Fort Sibley, now known as the town of Arrow Rock, Missouri which remained in operation until 1822.After the trading post shut down, George and Mary remained at Fort Osage, with George serving as postmaster until the fort closed in 1825....
This agreement effectively allowed a greatly expanded British presence in the Pacific Northwest, including today's British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington.The primary beneficiary of this agreement was the Hudson's Bay Company, which, in 1825, established a major trading post at Fort Vancouver across the Columbia River just north of today's Portland, Oregon.From this headquarters, British-employed fur trappers spread throughout the Pacific Northwest, extending as far east as the Rocky Mountains and, by using the Siskiyou Trail, as far south as California's Central Valley....
Native Americans would come into the forts and trade for food and clothing, generating huge profits (at the natives' expense).Belknap's wife Carrie, who desired to profit from these wealthy contracts, managed to secure a private trading post at Fort Sill for a personal friend from New York, Caleb P. Marsh....
