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Fort Pierre (Bad River mouth, Missouri west bank)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Fossils
Trade beads
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Fur-post, and applied-lip bottle glass in bank cuts and old corral ground..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Missouri River west bank at the mouth of the Bad River; old fur-post and Deadwood-trail landing
Site of the American Fur Company's Fort Pierre Chouteau and the wagon-road jump-off to Deadwood; Sanborn coverage starts later here because the town platted late.
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