Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors: A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri


Fort Clark Ruins

Publication: Plains Anthropologist, Vol 57, No. 221

Author: Raymond Wood & William A. Hunt

Date of Publication: 2012

PDF File: Mitchell-PlainsAnthropologist-2012.pdf

Description


Fort Clark, first established on the Missouri River in 1 824 some 2,400 km above St. Louis, was for decades a principal hub of the fur trade and a well-known destination for prominent travelers. Illustrations and scientific observations made there continue to frame archaeologists’ views of the native peoples of the northern Plains.