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French fur-trader (from whom it took its name) at the mouth of the Teton or Little Missouri river (now called the Bad River), on or near the site of the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

VILLAGE

village of Fort Pierre (pop. in 191o, 792). In 1822 Fort See also:

TECUMSEH, TECUMTHE, or TECUMTHA1 (c. 1768—1813)

Tecumseh was built about 2 M. up-stream by the See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia Fur See also:

COMPANY

Company, which turned it over in 1827 to the See also:

AMERICAN

American Fur Company. The washing away of the river bank caused the See also:

ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

abandonment of this post and the erection about a mile farther up-stream, and a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance See also:

west of the river, of Fort Pierre Chouteau (later called Fort Pierre), occupied in 1832, and named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Pierre Chouteau, jun.

(1789-1865).' For twenty ' Pierre Chouteau in 1804 succeeded his See also:

FATHER

father, one of the founders of St See also:

Louis, in the Missouri Fur Company; and about 1834 See also:

PRATT, ORSON (1811–1881)

Pratt, Chouteau & Company, of which he was the leading member, bought the entire western See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the American Fur Company, and in 1838 reorganized under the name of Pierre Chouteau, jun., &years thereafter Fort Pierre was the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief fur-trading See also:

DEPOT (from the Fr. depot, Lat. depositum, laid down; the French accent marks are usually dispensed with in English)

depot of the Upper Missouri country. In 1855 the See also:

UNITED

United States government bought the post building and other See also:

PROPERTY

property for $45,000, and laid out around them a military rese'--ration of about 270 sq. m. The fort was the headquarters of See also:

General See also:

William S. Harney (1800-1889) in his expedition against the See also:

SIOUX

Sioux in 1856, and in See also:

March of that See also:

YEAR

year an important See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council between General Harney and the chiefs of all the Sioux bands, except the Blackfeet, was held here. The fort was abandoned in 1857. Pierre was laid out in 188o, was incorporated as a village in 1883, and was chartered as a city in Igloo. See See also:

Major See also:

Frederick T. See also:

Wilson, " Fort Pierre and Its Neighbors," in South Dakota See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Collections, vol. i. (See also:

Aberdeen, S.D., 1902) ; and Hiram M. Chittenden, The American Fur Trade of the Far West (3 vols., New See also:

York, 1902).

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