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Title
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Fort Davy Crockett, Its Fur Men and Visitors
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Description
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Article about the history of Fort Davy Crockett, a fur trading post in northwest Colorado in the 1830s. Several fur traders, mountain men, and other visitors of the area of the fort are described from the 1820s to the 1840s, many also relating to travel west on the Oregon Trail. Independence, Missouri, is also mentioned as a jumping off point for western expeditions. The fort is described as a "primitive mart" for fur trade, owned by Philip Thompson, William Craig, and Pruett Sinclair, and abandoned by 1840.
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Date
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1952-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
