Fort Van Buren
Other Names:
Dates used: 1835 - 1842
Location of Fort: Rosebud, MT
Use: Trading
GPS N: 6-16.190
W: 106-28.260
Established in 1835 by the American fur Company on the right bank of the Yellowstone River at the Mouth of the Rosebud River. Charles Larpenture abandoned and burned the fort in 1842.
For more information see:
American Forts Network (internet)
Encyclopedia of Historic Forts
Forty Years a Fur Trader
March of the Montana Column
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