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DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. William J. Hunt, Jr..

Fort Union, the headquarters of American Fur Company's Upper Missouri Outfit, dominated the region's fur and bison robe trade from 1828 to 1865. The Minneapolis-based North Western Fur Company operated the trading post from 1865 to 1867 and the U.S. Army had a contingent of soldiers there from 1864 to 1865. In 1867, the Army bought and razed Fort Union for building materials in the construction of Fort Buford, a new infantry post two miles to the east. In 1965, Congress designated Fort Union a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Swan.

Hisn al-Tinat is a small, fortified port settlement in what is now southern Turkey. The site was occupied over the course of the 8th-12th centuries CE, during which time the region served as a border zone between Byzantium to the north and the Islamic caliphates to the south. Recent study has suggested that this frontier (al-thugūr) was not a militarized "no man’s land," but rather a multi-cultural, populated area that was part of an interconnected economic trade network. An examination of the...