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 CHAPTER XIII THE REE CONQUEST War of 1812 ruined the fur trade for the time being, and it did not begin to revive until about 1817. The records are strangely silent about Lisa's post in the Dakota



country at this time, but in the autumn of 1817 Joseph La Framboise, a mixed blood, French-Ottawa, established a post at the mouth of the Teton River, where Fort Pierre now stands, and the settlement at that point has been continuous since, making Fort Pierre the oldest continuous settlement in the state. 78