Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark 1834-1839, Paperback by Chardon, Francis A.; ...
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Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark 1834-1839, Paperback by Chardon, Francis A.; .... In particular, it is a valuable and graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837. Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark 1, Paperback by Chardon, Francis A.; Abel, Annie Heloise (EDT), ISBN 0803263759, ISBN-13 9780803263758, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon, a Philadelphian of French extraction, took charge of Fort Clark, a main post of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri. The journal that Chardon began that year offers a rare glimpse of daily life among the Mandan Indians, including the Arikaras, Yanktons, and Gros Ventres. In particular, it is a valuable and graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837. Chardon describes much of historical interest, including such figures as the interpreter Charbonneau, Sacajawea&;s husband, and the fantastic James Dickson, &;Liberator of all the Indians.&; By the time his account ends in 1839, the fur trade is already in decline.
