Fort
Vasquez Trading Post, constructed in 1835, was the first
permanent structure built along the South Platte River. Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette of St. Louis established their adobe outpost on a low plateau near the Trappers’ Trail. They wanted to be near the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, who traded buffalo robes for blankets, beads, kettles, knives, guns, ammunition, and other manufactured goods. Each year the traders traveled to St. Louis with their furs and returned with wagonloads of trade goods drawn by mule teams along the Santa Fe Trail and then north to the fort. Vasquez and Sublette employed as many as twenty-two men each year to serve as traders or hunters for the fort. The fort was abandoned in 1842 and its walls eroded into the soil.
permanent structure built along the South Platte River. Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette of St. Louis established their adobe outpost on a low plateau near the Trappers’ Trail. They wanted to be near the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, who traded buffalo robes for blankets, beads, kettles, knives, guns, ammunition, and other manufactured goods. Each year the traders traveled to St. Louis with their furs and returned with wagonloads of trade goods drawn by mule teams along the Santa Fe Trail and then north to the fort. Vasquez and Sublette employed as many as twenty-two men each year to serve as traders or hunters for the fort. The fort was abandoned in 1842 and its walls eroded into the soil.
This reconstruction is now a museum where we can see permanent exhibits about the Plains Indian, the mountain man, and fur trade objects.
My best,
Jane
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--trading post, outpost = comptoir, avant-poste
--to trade = to exchange
--beads = http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/bead
--kettles = pots and pans for cooking
--wagonload = a quantity that can be transported in a wagon
--drawn = pulled
--Santa Fe Trail =
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