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This is a partial list of trading posts that existed in the area of the present U.S. State of Colorado from 1828 to approximately 1868. The 24 historic trading posts in Colorado traded goods produced outside the region to Native Americans for furs, food, and locally made goods. Trading posts also sold goods to travellers and settlers.
Trading post [5] Milk Fort: Fort Leche, Pueblo de Leche, Fort El Puebla, Peebles Fort, Fort Independence Las Animas Otero late 1830s Trading post / settlement No remains [4] [5] [6] Fort Davy Crockett: Fort Misery Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge: Moffat: late 1830s Trading post [4] Fraeb's Post: Fort Fraeb Steamboat Springs area Routt ...
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Hand tinted photo of Garden of the Gods Trading Post, ca 1930, with Navajo and Pueblo Indians seated on porch. Strausenback died in 1957 and the trading post continued to be run by his widow Esther until 1979. [citation needed] At that time the trading post came under the proprietorship of T.A.T. Enterprises, which still owns the trading post.
Bent's Old Fort is a fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States.A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes.
John and Luisa Brown's trading post (1845-1849) was where the trail crossed a creek near present day Colorado City, Colorado. The trail continued southward to Huerfano Butte north of Walsenburg , then southwest to La Veta Pass following the route of U.S. Route 160 to Fort Garland then south to Taos through the San Luis Valley along the ...
This new trading post was not profitable and in July 1857, Bent leased it briefly to the United States Army and ran it again as a trading post. [3] By 1860, an area near the fort was a distribution point for annuity goods for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, who were starving and in need of the provisions as they headed east for a buffalo hunt; "their ...
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically a trading post allows people from one geographic area to exchange for goods produced in another area. Usually money is not used.