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Example sentences for "trading post"

  • At the mouth of the Umpquah, which empties into the Pacific about thirty miles from where it leaves this beautiful district of country, the Hudson's Bay Company have a trading post.

  • This is a trading post in the possession of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • This is a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, established upon the northern side of Snake or Lewis river, and one mile below the mouth of Bois river.

  • For some time he was in partnership with Sublette in a trading post on the South Platte.

  • The Missouri Fur Company was formed in 1808, and Mr. Henry, one of its agents, established a trading post on a branch of the Lewis River, the great southern arm of the Columbia.

  • Above the river bottoms, overlooking a bend in the Missouri's course, are the ruins of a trading post built in 1845 by Bartholomew Berthold, a Tyrolese.

  • New England was little more than a trading post.

  • Charles Chaboillez of the North West Company establishes first trading post in State at Pembina.

  • Wafford's mother saw the "Fire-carrier" once when she was a young woman, as she was coming home at night from a trading post in South Carolina.

  • To show his defiance of the proclamation, he deliberately journeyed to Fort Gibson, attacked a party of Osage at a trading post near by, and scalped one of them within hearing of the drums of the fort.

  • Its shores are very irregular, it contains a number of large islands, and a trading post of some antiquity.

  • On the extreme point of the largest island is situated a trading post known as La Point.

  • There is a trading post here, which is said to have been established ninety years ago; and in a certain log cabin which was pointed out to me, I was told furs had been stored, to the value of fifty millions of dollars.

  • In the same year Norman Kittson built a trading post at what has been since known as Kittson's Point.

  • The situation of this point appeared to be well adapted for a trading post.

  • He was naked and alone, in the midst of an unbounded wilderness; his only chance was to reach a trading post of the Missouri Company, situated on a branch of the Yellowstone River.

  • Then we crossed the bay which is called Narragansett, because of the Indians of that tribe living along the shores, and afterward were come to a trading post belonging to the people of Plymouth.

  • Some of these people, who agreed with the West India Company to build at this place a trading post, had already set up such houses as would serve to shelter them from the weather.

  • In the meantime the Onondagas had been already favoured by missionaries, and a body of fifty Frenchmen, the nucleus of a trading post.

  • In the latter part of the year 1767, John left his brother, and intending to make for a trading post on the Shenandoah, appointed the period of his return.

  • At length to obtain an additional supply of ammunition, salt and shirting, Doctor Eckarly left Cheat, with a pack of furs and skins, to visit a trading post on the Shenandoah.

  • Settlements were soon after extended westwardly across the Shenandoah, and early in the eighteenth century Winchester became a trading post, with sparse improvements in its vicinity.

  • Manoel Lisa, the Spanish fur dealer, had formerly a trading post at this place.

  • Soublette and Campbell had founded a trading post in the Manitari villages, and that their people, together with these Indians, had arrived but yesterday at the winter village, situated at no great distance.

  • Above it is Fort Cumberland, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • An officer of one of the fur trading companies of those days had received directions to establish a trading post on the banks of one of the rivers in that district.


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