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Kenneth McKenzie (aka Kenneth MacKenzie) (died 26 April 1861) was nicknamed the "King of the Missouri", for as a fur trader for American Fur Company in the upper Missouri River valley, he controlled a territory larger than most European nations.
- Sarpy in Sioux Country
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- Toppled Candle
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Sarpy had spent scarcely two years in Sioux country before his fatal accident. Family lore has it his father, Grégoire Sarpy, had banished the young man north because he had been living a wayward existence in St. Louis. In quick succession the young exile married two Lakota wives. “His first wife when he got up there was a daughter [Woman Ahead of ...
Chouteau’s prominence can’t be overstated. A year later, when the company replaced Fort Tecumseh with a new trading post, the principals named it Fort Pierre Chouteau in his honor. It is a testament to the power and influence of American Fur itself that Fort Pierre grew into what today is South Dakota’s oldest continuously occupied white community....
On February 15, having returned from his visit to the Oglala Post, bourgeois Laidlaw wrote to Kenneth MacKenzie, the company’s principal trader at Fort Union (on the present-day border of North Dakota and Montana). Laidlaw told MacKenzie the toppled candle had landed in a 50-pound keg of powder that had been opened that morning. “It blew three hous...
Laidlaw, in a follow-up letter to MacKenzie, noted the Oglalas delivered the collected goods to a company trader doing business with the Cheyennes (close allies of the Lakotas) some 15 miles away, but not before securing assurances the Cheyennes would not get the trade items they had salvaged. “The former are very tenacious of their rights…[and] in...
Feb 23, 2017 · Kenneth McKenzie is depicted here in an 1833 painting by Karl Bodmer. Ruling like a king—and hardly a constitutional monarchy—from Fort Union, in what would become North Dakota, Kenneth McKenzie controlled the fur and buffalo robe trade along the upper Missouri River and retired with $50,000 to his credit after sanctions over his illegal ...
The trade did not disappear from the West for some decades, but the main focus of it shifted far to the northwest after the purchase of Alaska in 1867. The fur trade was a thriving industry in North America from the 16th through 19th centuries. When Europeans first settled in North America, they traded with Indigenous….
McKenzie retired from the fur trade in 1834, in part because of the furor over his whiskey scheme. In St. Louis he subsequently operated wholesale grocery and liquor businesses and invested in land and railroads. Kenneth Mc- Kenzie, "King of the Missouri," died on April 26, 1861.
MACKENZIE, Sir ALEXANDER, fur trader, explorer, and author; b. 1764 at Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, third of four children of Kenneth Mackenzie, of Melbost farm (two miles east of Stornoway), and Isabella Maciver, whose family was prominent in the town; m. 1812 Geddes Mackenzie, and they had three children; d. 12 March 1820 at Mulinearn, near Dunkeld, Scotland.
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Nov 21, 2009 · In 1785, Mackenzie found himself on the edge of the great Canadian wilderness, in charge of the North West Company’s headquarters at Grand Portage, on what is now known as the Churchill River. He then moved to Fort Athabasca. where he met the fur-trader, Peter Pond, himself a bit of an explorer and, above all, a maker of maps.
