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American Legacy
The sweep of westward expansion on the Northern Plains is embodied in the explorers, trappers, Native Americans and military who shaped its history. George Armstrong Custer, Teddy Roosevelt, Sitting Bull, Lewis & Clark, Crazy Horse, and Sakakawea, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickock...the list is a long one. The Missouri River Fur Trade was instrumental in opening the West for settlers to follow. Spurred by a fickle European fashion trend (the beaver top hat), French, British and eventually American entrepreneurs pushed upstream, established trading relationships with the Natives and unwittingly gave birth to an entirely new American character: the Mountain Man. Want to learn more?Take me where history happened
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