• Fort Uncompahgre was a fur trading post constructed in 1828 by Antoine Robidoux, a trader based out of Mexican Santa Fe. The post was situated about two...
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    and Uncompahgre National Forests are located in Delta. Delta was built as a trading post for the Ute people and early settlers. Fort Uncompahgre was built...
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  • Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Colorado Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Otero County Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum, Delta Four Mile Historic...
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    were established on the Western Slope beginning in 1828 with the Fort Uncompahgre and Fort Davy Crockett at the center for trapping furs at Brown's Hole...
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    This is a list of military and trading forts established in what is now the U.S. State of Colorado. The initial forts, built in the first half of the 19th...
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    Bent's New Fort was a historic fort and trading post along the banks of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, about nine miles west...
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    Colorado-related lists List of forts in Colorado List of ghost towns in Colorado Outline of Colorado Fort Uncompahgre operated in the northwestern region...
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  • of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1965 Reyher, Ken, Antoine Robidoux and Fort Uncompahgre, The Story of a Colorado Fur Trader, Western Reflections Publishing...
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    Uncompahgre National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 955,229 acres (1,492.55 sq mi, or 3,865.68 km2) in (in descending order of land area) parts...
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    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...
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    The Uncompahgre Wilderness (formerly called the Big Blue Wilderness) is a U.S. Wilderness Area in southwest Colorado comprising 102,721 acres (415.70 km2)...
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    Geological Survey historic trail maps List of county seats in Colorado List of forts in Colorado List of ghost towns in Colorado List of National Register of...
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  • Antoine established Fort Uncompahgre near the confluence of the Gunnison River (then known as the Río San Xavier) and the Uncompahgre River in west-central...
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    Pennsylvania Fort Massachusetts named after the state of Massachusetts. Fort Namaqua Fort Uncompahgre – from the Ute word for "red lake" Uncompahgre River Uncompahgre...
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  • Fort Crawford, first known as Cantonment at Uncompahgre, was a U.S. military post along the Uncompahgre River, south of Montrose in Montrose County, Colorado...
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    Colorado, United States. The town is a former railroad stop on the Uncompahgre River in the northern San Juan Mountains. The town population was 1,183...
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  • preventing the Ute people from leaving the nearby Uintah Valley and Uncompahgre/Ouray Reservations. Gilson Butte - Former rocket testing facility. Granite...
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    1833 – August 20, 1880) was a Native American chief of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of the Ute tribe, then located in western Colorado. Because of...
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    treaty in Colorado, the forced removal of the White River Utes and the Uncompahgre Utes from Colorado, and the reduction in the Southern Utes' land holdings...
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    Morgan Museum Fort Morgan Morgan Northeast Local history website Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum Delta Delta Northwest Living Mid 19th-century period...
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    Geological Survey historic trail maps List of county seats in Colorado List of forts in Colorado List of ghost towns in Colorado List of National Register of...
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    Arthur signed an executive order to remove the Tabeguache Utes to the new Uncompahgre Indian Reservation in the Territory of Utah. On July 28, 1882, President...
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    population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States Census. Durango is the home of Fort Lewis College. The town was organized from September 1880 to April 1881 by...
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    October 3, 1861 by an executive order of President Abraham Lincoln. The Uncompahgre Reservation (commonly called the Ouray Reservation) was created on January...
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    of events known as the Colorado Wars. By the terms of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and seven Indian nations, including the...
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    Fort Garland (1858–1883), Colorado, United States, was designed to house two companies of soldiers to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley, then in...
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    Fort Vasquez is a former fur trading post 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Denver, Colorado, United States, founded by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in...
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    a Native American leader, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Kiowa Apache, she was raised by the Utes in what is...
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    Archeological studies have dated the Ute people's appearance in the Uncompahgre region of Colorado as early as 1150 A.D. Possibilities exist that they...
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    bands of Utes comprise the Ute Indian Tribe: the Whiteriver Band, the Uncompahgre Band and the Uintah Band. The Tribe has a membership of more than three...
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