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"this fort is undoubtedly one of the most important and productive of the american fur company's posts, being in the center of the great lakota country, drawing from all quarters an immense and almost incredible number of buffalo robes, which are carried to the new york and other eastern markets and
sold at a great profit." an average buffalo robes were traded each year at the fort for guns, shot, powder, tobacco, blankets, cloth, sugar, salt, coffee, and beads. historic accounts indicate there were times when the fort was surrounded by hundreds of american indian tepees. settlement here helped...
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