Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)
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Fort Atkinson was the first United States Army post to be established west of the Missouri River in the unorganized region of the Louisiana Purchase of the United States. Located just east of present-
Powder magazine at Fort Atkinson
Detail of (reconstructed) west rampart barracks
Fort Lisa (Nebraska)
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Fort Lisa was established in 1812 in what is now North Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska by famed fur trader Manuel Lisa and the Missouri Fur Company, which was based in Saint Louis. The fort was associated wi
Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)
…Bluff site on September 19. Their establishment of Fort Atkinson made it the first major American fort west of the Missouri River. It was located near Fort Lisa and Cabanne's Trading Post, private fur trading establishments operated by major traders who were based in St. Louis, Missouri. The expedition stopped…
Fort Lisa would have sat on the Missouri River near this location in Dodge Park.
Retrato de Manuel Lisa