PO Box 700
08 East 2nd Ave
Fort Pierre, SD 57532
Phone: 605-223-7690Fax: 605-223-7693Shop: 605-223-7694
Swimming Pool: 605-223-7696 |
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Fort Pierre Chouteau |
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Just north of Fort Pierre on SD Highway 1806 is another National Historic Landmark:
Fort Pierre Chouteau, the busiest 19th-century trading post in the upper Great Plains.
Wildlife, native tribes, and European traders, trappers, and settlers moved in large
numbers along the Missouri River, and Fort Chouteau became the center of commerce
and the dominant European settlement for the entire region. Early explorer and artist
George Catlin wrote:
"This fort, being in the center of the great Lakota country, draws from all quarters
an immense and almost incredible number of buffalo robes, which are carried to New
York and other eastern markets and sold at a great profit."
At times the fort was surrounded by hundreds of tipis. Ongoing excavations at the
site have unearthed the original foundations, and a wealth of artifacts.
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