| Summary: | And Early Explorations 561. the Hudson Bay Company in 1784. He later was employed by the Northwest Company as an explorer, geographer and astronomer. In 1797 he explored the valleys of the Red River of the North, the Assiniboine, Mouse, and upper Missouri rivers, also the Turtle Mountain and Dogden Butte and visited the Mandan Indians. He very accurately mapped the country on this trip. On July 17, 1925, the Great Northern Railway Company unveiled a granite sphere monument with deeply engraved lines, representing latitude and longitude, in commemoration of this great man. It stands on a high hill near Verendrye. It was presented to the State of North Dakota and it will attest his doings for all time. He died at Montreal in 1857 and rested in an unmarked grave until 1926 when a monument was erected there in his honor. In 1800, Mr. Langloise was in charge of a Northwest Company post at the Hair Hills, near the present town of Walhalla. In 1801 there was a Hudson Bay trading post at the Grand Crossing of the Pembina River. This was later called Smugglers Point and is now Neche, which means "friend" in Chippewa. Captain Alexander Henry, Jr., in the employ of the Northwest Company, established a trading post at the mouth of the Park River on September 8, 1800. In 1801 he built Fort Paubian at Pembina and also sent John Cameron with men to build a post at Grand Forks. In September, 1801, Thomas Miller and eight Orkney men established a Hudson Bay post on the east side of the Red River, opposite the mouth of the Pembina. A, few days later J. Creboss and men established an X. Y. Company post near Fort Paubian. A trading post was also early established at Georgetown, Minnesota, some sixteen miles north of the present city of Moorhead. The Hudson Bay Company had many trading posts in the Red River Valley in later years. Until the Red River cart was invented, the canoe, travois and dog sled were the only means cSf travel. In 1806, Alexander Henry, Jr., explored the Mouse and upper Missouri river regions. On the return trip from the Mandan villages he camped at Buffalo Lodge Butte and Lake in township 156 N., range 78 W., in northern McHenry county, and the spot is still seen just as he described it. In 1808 he was again at Pembina. He later explored across the Rocky Mountains and Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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