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Title: Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company
Description: There are numerous references in the book to the Chouteau family and in particular Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and his involvement in the fur trade on the upper Missouri River. The focus of the book is the history of Fort Union, a fort of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The working arrangements between the Indians and fur traders early on is contrasted between the later dealings of the Indians with the U.S. government and the military.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Book

Title: Searching for Sibley's Fort
Description: Article describes archaeological testing conducted in June 2004 to determine the site of Sibley's Fort near Arrow Rock, Missouri. Includes a brief documentary history of the fort, which was completed in October 1813 to serve the Osage Indians during the War of 1812. Article includes a map of the area, as well as a summary of archaeological evidence of the fort's possible locations.
Date: 2005-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Life at Bent's Fort
Description: Abridged reprint of an article originally published in Forest and Stream magazine in 1910. The article describes day-to-day life at Bent's Fort. Topics covered include: holiday celebrations at the fort, typical residents, trade activity during different seasons, and the types of materials traded there.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fort Leavenworth: Gateway to the West
Description: Book gives the history of Fort Leavenworth, located by the Missouri River in Kansas, which began as Cantonment Leavenworth in May 1827 and was founded by and named after Colonel Henry Leavenworth. Contains nine chapters and brings the history of the garrison up to the twentieth century. Includes numerous illustrations including photographs, drawings, and maps.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Book

Title: Johnson's United States
Description: Map of the United States, Lower California, northern Mexico, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands. State and territorial boundaries, railroad lines, rivers, and towns are indicated for the U.S., as well as forts, explorers' routes, pioneer trails, and Indian tribe locations for western U.S. Numeral 20 found in upper left corner; numeral 21 found in upper right corner.
Date: 1862
Object Type: Map

Title: Visit the Oldest Home in Kansas
Description: The Rookery building, located at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was built between 1828 and 1832 and is considered the oldest residence in Kansas. The building "housed the post's soldiers and officers, including Andrew Reeder, the first territorial governor of Kansas, William Clark's stepdaughter and a young lieutenant by the name of Douglas MacArthur, who lived there with his mother." The Rookery is just one of 269 homes at the fort listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of 66 others that are part of a $3 million preservation project. The home is still lived in but will be open to the public to tour during this week.
Date: 2008-11-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fort Wallace and Its Relation to the Frontier
Description: According to the article, "Fort Wallace was the last and most western military post of any permanency in Kansas." It was established in September of 1865 near Pond's Creek Station on the Butterfield Overland Despatch route to Denver. Various quotes from other sources are included as well as extensive information about the fort, the Indians and pioneers and the Smoky Hill route. Includes numerous illustrations.
Date: 1926/1928
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: James Bridger, the Greatest Rocky Mountain Scout
Description: Biographical article about Jim Bridger, "the uncrowned king of all the Rocky Mountain scouts of half a century ago." The author relates his experiences traveling in the West and Southwest with Bridger in the 1860s as a soldier with the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry at Fort Laramie and back to Fort Kearny. A brief but detailed biographical history of Jim Bridger is also given from the author's recollections, including Bridger's physical description and his life as a mountain scout, said to have started when he left his home in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1822.
Date: 1916-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Map of Eastern Kansas
Description: Photoreproduction of a map of eastern Kansas including a sketch of three buildings in Lawrence. Legend indicates towns, trading posts, post offices, Native American villages, missions, and government forts.
Date: 1856
Object Type: Map

Title: Trading Posts of the Central Plains
Description: Compiled list of the locations, ownership. and periods of occupation of trading posts of the Central Plains during the era of the fur trade. The list is presented in a mix of chronological and geographical order. The list is sorted into the following categories: early posts, Missouri River posts, and inland posts. Maps displaying the locations of the posts are provided.
Date: 2007
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fort Osage
Description: Photo and history of Fort Osage, "the first United States government outpost in Louisiana Territory," selected for its site on the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 and established in 1808, supervised by William Clark, located near Sibley, Missouri, and restored in 1948.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book Section

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