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In 1766, while hunting near the muddy water at the mouth of a small creek entering the Cumberland River in the region called French Lick, Demonbreun noticed a large number of buffalo and deer using a salt lick. The spring is a natural source of sulfurated water, and eventually became known as Sulphur Dell.
The number of beavers and river otters killed during the fur trade was devastating for the animals' North American populations. The natural ecosystems that came to rely on the beavers for dams , river and water management and other vital needs were also ravaged, leading to ecological destruction , significant environmental change, and even ...
If this alternative translation is correct, then the inscription appears to suggest that Robidoux had not yet established a trading post on the Uinta River by 1837. This contradicts evidence that he purchased and rebuilt the Reed Trading Post on the Uinta River in 1832, five years earlier. [6] [2]
John Henry Weber was born in the town of Altona, then ruled by the King of Denmark as the Duke of Holstein and now a borough of Hamburg in Germany.Weber immigrated in 1807 to the United States where he was hired by the United States Army Ordnance Department to keep records for the government-owned lead mines in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.
Jim Baker (1818–1898), known as "Honest Jim Baker", [1] was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, army scout, interpreter, and rancher. He was first a trapper and hunter. The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business until 1855.
White River (Indiana) Whitewater River (Great Miami River tributary) Wildcat Creek (Indiana) Wilson Creek (Ohio River tributary) Y. Yellow River (Indiana) York ...
The “Old Fashion Days” Festival is a festival held in North Salem over Labor Day weekend for the last 43 years. This is the largest parade in Hendricks County . In 2020 the festival will celebrate its 45th anniversary and the town's 185th anniversary since establishment.
They proceeded down the lower Snake River and Columbia River by canoe, and were the first Overland Astorians to reach Fort Astoria, on January 18, 1812. McKenzie spent two years exploring and trading for the Pacific Fur Company in the Willamette Valley, along the Columbia River, in eastern Washington and in northern and central Idaho. When PFC ...