| Summary: | 562 The North Dakota Indians was drowned in the Columbia River on May 28, 1814. He kept an accurate record of his journeys and explorations and the journal of his travels is now preserved in the Canadian Historical Library in Ottowa. In 1824, George Coventry transcribed a copy of the journal from the original and in 1897 Elliot Coues published a three volume work which he excerpted from the Coventry manuscript. The Hudson Bay Company was financed by English capitalists and most of its employees were English and Scotch. They withdrew from Dakota soon after 1870. Pembina was called Pembina House in early days. The employees of the Northwest Company were mostly French Catholics, and many of them married Indian squaws, which accounts for the large number of half-breeds in the vicinity of Pembina early in the 19th century. Bostonais Pangman was in charge of the Pembina post for the Northwest Company in 1806. Jonathan Carver, the great explorer, traveling through Western Minnesota, penetrated into the extreme northeastern corner of South Dakota in 1768. Pierre Dorion settled at the mouth of the James River in 1785 and engaged in trade with the Indians. He was a squawman, his wife being a member of the Yankton tribe. In 1806, Manuel Lisa, a Spanish trader from New Orleans, organized the Missouri Fur Company, which operated along the Missouri River, and built a fort above the mouth of the Knife River. Emanuel Creek and Emanuel Rock, early place names, some twelve miles above the mouth of the Big Knife River, were named in his honor. The American Fur Co., later the Pierre Chouteau, Jr., Co., had many trading posts along the Missouri River early in the 19th century. Pierre Chouteau, Jr., became immensely rich in the fur trade, being estimated at one time to be worth $18,000,000. John Jacob Astor had many fur expeditions out. Fie accumulated a vast fortune in the fur trade. Astoria, Oregon, was named in his honor. The Hunt (Astor) party came up the Missouri River in 1811. At the mouth of the Grand River in South Dakota they purchased horses from the Indians and started overland for Astoria, Oregon. They visited North Dakota in the Fort Yates Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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