Show famous forts in Us S history by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 3 Q i W warn napper Nw union th the fort th that manned figured in a scandal I 1 neither ill the bellini knip or teapot dunne dome bid dents nee are the only cases ot of sea scandal in tile the president a cabinet for far in 1858 secretory secretary of war john B floyd was under fire am for far his her C connection co o with it sale of t beer art snelling minn blinn to frank un n strode steele for the usual intent me con groes ional in investigation follo followed ned and ad e it ily the fd fadera 1 a authorities aff m coccid possession of tile the post the airy of fort snelling dates from IW when zebulon pike adl purchased d from the sioux 81 indiana la B rpm tract a of 1 acres valued at rp or bt the confluence once of the minnesota old and MI mississippi ill I 1 rivers pike must have has been x ash im d bargainer bar sainer for far he sot get tt it tor for B orth of presents and 60 gallons gallon of ehley whisky I 1 I 1 the anar of 1812 establish ing a military past hobt there then until 1819 when pol al henry leavenworth lea v en worth with fill the fifth infantry began building fort st 81 anthony which in 1824 wile was renamed li I on art shelling elling by G gen en W afield scott in n bunor of col josiah J 3 all snelling less e orth successor fort snelling elling had it long horg list hat ot of corn cons mand mandanna man danta ants who later became prominent AM 9 them zachary taylar to y lor the old rough gh end it read of f the mexican war swe sad it t of th united states Si totes W T Bli grods nider and 0 F in aish war generals and B E H R 8 11 coolly the martyr of ill the love lava beds ad in the mad modoc eur of 1872 78 the famous faus us dred scott C case Is 11 at also connected with fort snelling tor ter dred dead scott was the stave of post poat surgeon emerson at snelling elling and scott nas married to scale negro girl there in 1838 1836 by 1840 fort snelling wa swo so an lm am patient place because it was the extreme northern outpost 1 in the be march am of civilization civilisation let the great grant northwest there thousands of at indian gathered to trado tra and al also to fight for the ancient feud between the saoai locce an and it Chip chippewa repeatedly blazed out 11 into I 1 a var v 11 ar in 11 ill the civil war it 11 ana the tha leade grous for or alwa ba troops and it was the center of activity during the fe st sioux outbreak ab k of at 1883 2863 snelling wax wan else also the scene of I 1 training camp dome during tile world war and it Is now one me of the important military posts past maintained by the war department not far train from the field st paul pan society way today perka parks its but automobiles A mobiles to natch the offices from kh hie post part play polo pedal in there stands feud As an old 34 vin vine covered o red tone stone tower the only efly relic of the lort snelling of pioneer davs dam and an interesting symbol ot t contrast con trust between the old and ad new where the king of tho the missouri Mi Mouri ruled when kenneth mckenzie it tem old it S scotchman babas who who later was known a I 1 tha king T 8 of f the be All Mouri tieso wa 0 put pat I 1 in ch charge of at the abo american I 1 fur far bull on the upper mi 1 bourl aw la 1 1828 8 at he built blot a fort act at th 1 junction of 1 the yellowstone Yellow atone a and ad th the missouri 1 in the exal extreme e me western part pan of the pr present so ant late of north dakota at al first fir t alili till was known a pon fort ployd floyd but mckenzly McK IlKer enzla sid changed that rum name to be 1 tort beef U union caa A be because C B he intended to adim it atia center mr of both but h mountain not at and nd river fur far tralle trade rort bait union i s ald 1 ato to have been anam ill the best beat C built it post p t ot on the missouri UlaB ouri and with will ill the possible exception lop lian of al bent beat fort on an tile arkansas the best beat I 1 in ald the call entire west her here the king legai reigned over aser him bis turbulent botti both avid white is and red and nd for the next quarter of a century port pon union retained its importance which was waa not true ot of many of tile the fur trading post built during that era but the end and came co la 1 1664 whon when a et wamer eamer sent met by smith hubbell and hawley who be had hung bought h 1 out 1 the h arter american lom fur fee ce corn pany va appeared at t inq art union to trawler transfer its it good to pon beatin beatea montana J ata the word ot of on historian abea who that toomer steamer backed away train from the loading tins stout amt walls 11 ot of 10 fort union to ce crumble ceble ble into dust she had turned tile the laid leaf on an tile hia closing chapter of an epoch which tor fw thrilling romance has seldom been base equalled equal led in tile history lit atory of the coati nent beat fort union had ban been the g great I 1 est art of tile the indian trading posts post within tile boundaries of the united for far yeara can the most moat powerful tribes tribe of tha me northwest had come there to trade there tied had come came the factors factor of the company compan other past from nil all over the vast watershed of it the upper Mink oarl there had bad assembled tie alie held jagerm of the wild wilderness crins from A tile lie great sift slava lake end and the platte from rom ill alte brain and the tha I 1 rod red river of the north horth them had bad vi fled at an one time bud and soother some A i of the x world rid ameet B most farm aind ad explorers plot among as others b a 0 call cutha prince kim an and it A aa dubon dub on when fort union passed away th there pissed ease with it tile alie lost last vestige of at the tur me trade its as A an commercial wait institution antl As mail and there re 1 mains acs 11 today but b little trace terms of 1 th aba placa ics where alne met Uch enzle nitch until bill him bis clandestine distillery oceia opeia long within its in wells wall brought down one upon pa him do alie w wrath it of the is united state government and ad virtually put to an B end the usefulness of one me of ati abe th great figures n la in the th fur fair trade |