Special history study: The fur trade at Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Barbour BH. 2000. Special history study: The fur trade at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. NPS Special History Study. National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Santa Fe, New Mexico
This report was prepared to aid in interpretation and resource management at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. A new study of the fur trade era has long been needed by the staff at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. This report was prepared to aid in interpretation and resource management, by augmenting our knowledge of the post’s early history, its day to day affairs, its personnel, and its relationships with native trading partners. In addition, this study provides a clearer assessment of the significance of the fort’s fur-trade era in western American history than has hitherto been done. Finally, it frames the post’s history within the context of the inter ethnic relations that developed on the plains before American military force Indian resistance and supplied the police power requisite for “settlement” to proceed.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Barbour, Barton
- Date of Issue
- 2000
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- Units
- FOLA , HIST
- Keywords
- Cultural Resources, ehistory, Fort John, Fort Laramie, Fort Platte, Fort William, Fur Trade, History, Interpretation, Liquor Trade, Resource Management