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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C2R_american-indians-and-the-fur-trade_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
The fur trade worked thanks to American Indians. They harvested buffalo and other furbearers and bartered them to white traders. For a time, this system benefited both the traders and American Indians.
Traders relied on the American Indians to b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BX6_the-fort-pierre-plain_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Joseph LaFramboise built Fort LaFramboise out of driftwood in 1817 near the mouth of the Bad River. This area is the oldest continually occupied Euro-American settlement in South Dakota. There were several fur outposts on this river plain up until…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSW_john-c-waldron_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
John Charles Waldron was born in Ft. Pierre, SD, on August 21, 1900 and was the youngest of five children born to Charles W. and Jan E. (Van Metre) Waldron, she a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Waldron attended grade school in Fort Pier…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29CT_old-deadwood-trail_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
At this point freight from steamships coming up the Missouri River were unloaded onto ox drawn wagons for 200 miles round trip to Deadwood took 30 days.
This famous old trail 1876-1887 Northwestern Railway operated what they called the Bull Tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WUW_early-western-highway-historical_Fort-Pierre-SD.html
Fur trade route from Missouri River, Ft. Tecumseh (Pierre) to Ft. William (1832). John (1834) later Laramie via Badlands Pass S of Scenic and White and Niobrara Rivers. Harney's Expedition (1855) to overawe the Sioux and 1876-88 Stage and Wagon Ro…