The county seat and metropolis of Walsh County North Dakota: city of Grafton, illustrated

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2014
• Subjects: Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Indian; assiniboine
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/13834

GRAFTON ILLUSTRATED. afterward abreviated to "Sioux." Dakota is an Indian word signifying allied or confederated, and had reference to the union of various bands of the Sioux tribes. After the end of French rule in Canada all of this northwest territory was claimed by the Hudson Hay Company under a grant from Charles II in 1670. In 1717 Verandecie a French officer, journeyed west from Lake Superior and erected a fort on the banks of the Red River near the point when it joins the Assiniboine, and French trader., for years visited tha post to traffic with the Indians. In 1783 several fur traders combined and formed the Northwest Fur Company which soon became a rival of the Hudson Bay Company, and in the strife for the trade of the territory nianv conflicts ensued •i.ow.v;'. in WALSH C I'PHASl S 1 \ KM FARM RE8IDENCB <>!' FRED WORTHING. between the employes of the companies, reaching at times 'he proportion;, of war. often with serious results. A compromise was finally effected in 1821. In 1780 a French trader built the first cabin occupied by whites, at Pembina and maintained a settlement for years, making frequent trips from there all over this tecti in, in the purchase of furs. He was still there in 182.5 when Keating, the historian id Major Long's expedition, vis ited the spot. The first American settler. t.> reach Dakota were fur traders connected with John Jacob Astor's company, who came out in 1808 and from Fort Clark, which was built on the Missouri river, made expeditions over the territory trapping with the Indians. In 1801 Capt. Henry of the Hudson Hay Company. with headquarters at Pembina, established a trading- | est on the Park River in what is now Walsh County, 24 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.