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Trading post

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many Americans and, up to this point, only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, they would need an inside contact to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger, a trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was able to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie.
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focuses on the journey of John Jacob Astor, who founded the American Fur Company (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed
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could control such a large amount of land because of their efficient systems for spreading information, goods, and other supplies across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to fueling outposts in distant territories, like northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played a large part
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The next event from Dolin's book features early conflicts between the French and Plymouth colonists. This occurs in 1631 when the French go to the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. With the masters and most of the crew gone to get supplies, this left only a few servants to attend to the French. When
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Noochuloghoyet Trading Post was an American trading post established in the last 19th century, located in central Alaska adjacent to the Yukon River. This was an important trading post for the fur trade, though it has historically gone by different names and the level of involvement varied greatly
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the Frenchmen learned that this was the case, they decided to feign interest in a few of the guns available at the trading post, which they turned back onto the servants. They ordered for all things valuable, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts.
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provides some historical context on events and the origins of trading posts in North America. One of the first examples given is that of the Kennebec Trading House, established in 1628 by the Plymouth colonists.
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A trading post can be either a single building or an entire town. Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near the ocean, a river, or another
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John C. Ewers, "The Trading Post in American Indian Life," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1954 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955), 389-401.
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in managing these goods, where they were going, and when. Some goods exchanged at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system were precious stones,
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in goods produced in another area. In some examples, local inhabitants can use a trading post to exchange local products for goods they wished to acquire.
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Colominas, L., and Edwards, C. J. (2017) Livestock Trade during the Early Roman Period: First Clues from the Trading Post of Empúries (Catalonia).
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Turck, Thomas J., and Diane L. Lehman Turck. "Trading Posts along the Yukon River: Noochuloghoyet Trading Post in Historical Context."
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would trade furs for; some of these goods included clothing, blankets, and corn. Eric Jay Dolin's
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at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Typically the location of the trading post allows people from one geographic area to
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in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where
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A trading house was typically strategically stocked with goods that the
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A "trading post" also once referred to a trading booth within the
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Area where economic activity between peoples is less regulated
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was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires.
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respectively, and later developed into major settlements.
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A recreation of a typical trading post for trade with the
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were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman
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Index

Trading station


Plains Indians
factory
goods and services
trade
natural resource
kontors
Charax Spasinu
Manhattan
Singapore
Peter Minuit
Stamford Raffles
Roman Empire
fabrics
ivory
wine
cattle
Native American trade
Native Americans
scouting
New York Stock Exchange
Fort Vancouver
Fort Edmonton
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Fort Michilimackinac
Fort William, Ontario
Tadoussac
Commerce

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