Southern Platte River Basin/Front Range (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Toussaint.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1835, Pierre Louis Vasquez established Fort Vasquez in the South Platte River Basin to trade for bison products with the Indigenous groups of the region. Though this fort was not the first instance where Indigenous people of this region encountered Euromericans and their enterprises, it did mark the beginning of an era of...