Fort Henry on the Missouri River

Fort Henry on the Missouri River, located at the mouth of the Yellowstone where it enters the Missouri, was established on October 1, 1822 by a party of men led by Major Andrew Henry, who mounted the expedition for the purpose of establishing a fur trade outpost for an area which now encompasses most of Montana, western North Dakota, parts of Wyoming, into Canada.[1][2] The site of the fort, which was abandoned in 1823, is approximately 20 miles southwest of Williston, North Dakota near the Montana - North Dakota state line. This was the second fort named for Henry, the first being the Fort Henry built in the fall of 1810 by the Missouri Fur Company on Henry's Fork of Snake River in present-day southeastern Idaho.[3]

References

  1. ^ Mark H. Brown. 1969. The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone: A History of the Yellowstone Basin. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. p. 64.
  2. ^ National Park Service. 2011. Andrew Henry, http://www.nps.gov/bica/historyculture/andrew-henry.htm, accessed 6 Aug 2011.
  3. ^ E. S. Lohse. 1993. Southeastern Idaho Native American Prehistory and History, http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/arch/Prehist/Pre_Summ/SE_Snake/Historic.htm, from Manual for Archaeological Analysis: Field and Laboratory Analysis Procedures. Department of Anthropology Miscellaneous Paper No. 92-1 (revised). Pocatello: Idaho Museum of Natural History.