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	Fort Union
		The importance of Fort Union during that time period still remained high not only because it was the main supply and munitions depot in the southwest but also because of the need to keep the Santa Fe Trail open despite Apache and Navajo uprisings.
		Fort Union Arsenal New Mexico is situated one mile due west of Fort Union on a reservation belonging to the ordnance department, one half-mile extent.
		Fort Union may have lacked the flair and excitement of a cavalry charge, or the heroics of an infantry platoon.
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	Fort Street Union Depot was Pennsy's Gateway to Detroit
		Fort Street Union Depot served as the Pennsy station in Detroit through all the years that the Pennsy operated Passenger trains into the city.
		Fronting on the corners of Fort and Third streets it occupied a street frontage of 166 x 118 feet with an extension along Fort of an additional 311 feet for a total of 429 feet on that side.
		The Fort Street Union Depot Co. was part of the Union Belt Railroad of Detroit, formed by the Pere Marquette, Wabash, and Pennsylvania railroads.
	www.detnews.com /metro/hobbies/hotbox/fall93/union/union.htm (1482 words)

	A History of Fort Union
		The reason for the existence of Fort Union arises from the Santa Fe Trail, whose ruts radiate north and south of the Forts.
		Fort Union was established in July, 1851, several miles north of the junction of the two main branches of the Santa Fe Trail.
		Fort Union's importance within the district called for facilities of a more permanent nature and, in 1863, work began on the design and construction of the third, largest, and final facility.
	www.ku.edu /heritage/research/sft/ft-union.htm (2605 words)

	Fort Union New Mexico
		Approaching Fort Union from the south is a lesson in botanical diversity.
		Many of the wagon tracks were here before Fort Union was built, and hopefully will be preserved for many more years as a monument to the brave pioneers who put everything they owned into a wagon and headed West to start life anew.
		The fort was, after all, constructed on the high plain where the Mountain branch and the Cimmaron branch of the trail rejoined, about seventy-five miles north of Santa Fe where the soldiers could protect the trailblazers from attack.
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	Fort Union National Monument (National Park Service)
		Fort Union was established in 1851 by Lieutenant Colonel Edwin V. Sumner as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail.
		During it's forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together.
		The third and final Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest.
	www.nps.gov /foun (96 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Union
		In geometric design the fortification resembled an eight-pointed star, and thus became known as the star fort.
		The star fort afforded no improvement in living conditions.
		Like the old fort, the quarters and storehouses of the new were built of unbarked pine logs that quickly rotted and housed nesting places of insects.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/35/hh35i.htm (287 words)

	Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
		Fort Union, near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, dominated the fur trade of the upper Missouri from 1830 until 1867.
		The fort and the fur trade in general had codes of conduct that could not be broken without consequences, as Barbour's account makes clear.
		Early in Fort Union's history, steam power overtook manpower as the preferred source of energy to move upstream on the Missouri, evidenced by the large number of steamboat names that Barbour reports.
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	Fort Union
		Fort Union was located on the Missouri River, upward from the junction of the Yellowstone, just some 100 yards from the present-day Montana border by Kenneth McKenzie.
		Any account of this historic fort of the fur-trapping era would be incomplete without intertwining it with a part of the life of McKenzie who was considered the ablest trader that the American Fur Company ever had.
		It was from his Fort Union headquarters that McKenzie “ruled over an extent of country greater than that of many a notable empire in history” Indeed, McKenzie was king—at least for a while.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/great_american_plains/114686 (1215 words)

	ABQjournal: Fort Union Guarded New Mexico Frontier for 40 Years
		FORT UNION NATIONAL MONUMENT—; In the broad Mora River Valley of northeast New Mexico, the ruins of a once vibrant frontier Army post stretch out along the southern flank of the Turkey Mountains.
		Near Fort Union, deep ruts cut into the prairie by the countless wagons which plied the trail from Missouri to Santa Fe for more than 50 years are still visible.
		In the Post of Fort Union, designed for four companies of infantry or cavalry, a broad parade ground separated a row of officers' quarters from enlisted men's barracks, administrative offices, laundress quarters, a military prison, bakery and stables for more than 200 horses.
	www.abqjournal.com /venue/travel/122374travel12-14-03.htm (2071 words)

	Fort Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fort Union was built in 1828 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in what is today northwest North Dakota.
		By the mid-1830's, the fort was a major trade site, attracting a wide number of Native American groups such as the Assiniboine, Blackfeet, various Dakota bands, as well as the Mandan, and Hidatsa.
		Fort Union was closed as a trade operation in 1866.
	www.state.nd.us /hist/LewisClark/ftUnion.html (86 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fort Union (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Fort Union, trading post of the American Fur Company, erected in 1828 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, on the Mont.-N.Dak. line; it controlled converging routes of travel from the Rocky Mts.
		When the U.S. army assumed control in 1867, Fort Union was torn down and Fort Buford, a military post, erected nearby.
		Fort Union Trading Post is a national historic site (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
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	Fort Union National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Union National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located in Watrous, New Mexico, USA.
		The site preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851, as well as the ruins of the third.
		Also visible is a network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Union_National_Monument (136 words)

	Fort Union on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		FORT WORTH, TX -- David Hawkins, left, and Brian Johnson give their approval of a vote to strike against Lockheed Martin Aeronautics on Sunday, April 13, 2003, in Fort Worth, Texas.
		Fred Bledsoe of Fort Wayne, Indiana, talks about the medical treatment he has received in the former Soviet Union's Republic of Georgia on his left foot after a severe staph infection.
		Fred Bledsoe, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, holds a vial of the bacteriophage his staph infection was treated with in the former Soviet Union's Republic of Georgia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FortU1nio.asp (720 words)

	Investigation of Fort Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Though Fort Union saw its share of excitement during this period, the principal activity continued to be the operation of the Quartermaster's Depot.
		In actuality, Fort Union remained active until 1891 because it had not "outlived its usefulness." To be sure, the strategic and logistical considerations that had thrust importance upon it were gone.
		Across the valley on the detached unit of the monument are the structures associated with the third fort's arsenal (ordnance depot) constructed between 1866 and 1882.
	www.sgha.net /ftunion.html (4959 words)

	Fort Union National Monument -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The fort, at a junction of two branches of the Santa Fe Trail, was an important supply depot; it was abandoned in 1891.
		The fort is situated on a man-made island at the entrance to the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. Construction of the fort, named for the American Revolutionary War general Thomas Sumter, began in 1829 and was still in progress in 1861.
		Its strategic advantages were early recognized; in the 18th century the island held Fort George (dismantled 1776), used mainly for defense against privateers, and, later, Fort Greene...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9034963 (849 words)

	Fort Union
		A new fort was built in 1862 east of the old one.
		The rebel forces of 2,500 had gathred at Fort Bliss and had threatened to take Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Fort Union.
		For six years, 1863-69, a third fort was being built.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/FtUnion.htm (211 words)

	NPT Preserves Historic Landscape at Fort Union Trading Post
		Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, which was authorized in 1966, is located 25 miles southwest of Williston, North Dakota.
		NPS excavated the stone foundations of the original fort, uncovering many artifacts relating to life at the fort.
		The Friends of Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site was established in 1984 to promote the preservation, interpretation and development of Fort Union Trading Post and Fort Buford, the Sitting Bull surrender site.
	www.parktrust.org /projects/ft-union (560 words)

	Fort Union National Monument
		Between 1850 and 1865 three forts were built on the site where the remains of Fort Union now stand.
		Erected in 1863 and 1869, and modified somewhat during the 1870s, it consisted of the military post of Fort union and the Fort Union Quartermaster Depot and served as the principal supply base for the Military Department of New Mexico.
		The ruins of Fort Union are an impressive memorial to the men and women who won the West.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/2087/places/3082 (286 words)

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		Between 1829 and 1867, the Fort dominated the fur tradeon the Upper Missouri River.
		Fort Union also expanded its summer interpretive offerings with the addition of regularly scheduled daily tours of the fort and a variety of new "living history" programs.
		Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is open daily from 8 am to 6;30 pm mountain time.
	www.midrivers.com /~fairview/ftunion.html (621 words)

	Trailer Life: Fort Union, Montana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To say that Fort Union is on the Montana/North Dakota border is notjust accurate, it's precisely so.
		Inside the reconstructed fort, I went into a low-ceiling room where the trade goods were displayed -- an early 19th-- century minimart exclusively for Indians.
		Dave told me that 80 percent of the fort's 442 acres are in North Dakota; the rest are in Montana.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3707/is_200111/ai_n8962155 (1551 words)

	Fort Union Trading Post NHS: Historic Structures Report/Historical Data Section (Endnotes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is ironic that all the Chouteaus involved with Fort Union actually had not a drop of Chouteau blood in them.
		The first time the name Fort Union has been found in the account books of the American Fur Co. was under the date of Aug. 7, 1830, in an account for the UMO.
		De Smet was at Fort Union in 1840, 1841, 1851, 1859, 1862, 1863, and 1867.
	www.nps.gov /fous/hsr/hsr1e.htm (3770 words)

	Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (National Park Service)
		A trip to Fort Union takes you back in time to the mid-19th century, the heyday of Fort Union and the fur trade on the Upper Missouri river.
		Fort Union Trading Post was the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri from 1828 to 1867.
		Today, the reconstructed Fort Union represents a unique era in American history, a brief period when two different civilizations found common ground and mutual benefit through commercial exchange and cultural acceptance.
	www.nps.gov /fous (207 words)

	Fort Union
		Union, this included purchasing beaver at $12 per pound, when the previous year only $3 a pound had been paid.
		Union, partly due to the dilapidated state and partly due to its small size.
		By 1866 Fort Union had been sold to the Northwest Fur Company (not to be confused with the North West Company), but that company could only make the trade last another year.
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	Fort Union New Mexico, 1851-1891 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The most significant number of Santa Fe Trail remains anywhere are found in the Fort Union Watrous area of New Mexico.
		Fort Union was established in 1851 for the protection of northern New Mexico and the Santa Fe Trail.
		Here, one is able to stand in the ruts and follow their course through the fort property.
	www.stjohnks.net /santafetrail/spacepix/fortunionnm.html (278 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Union
		Fort Union was an 1800s fort guarding the Santa Fe Trail.
		This is a picture of his great-grandfather, Second Lieutenant Lea Febiger, relaxing in the bachelor's quarters at Fort Union, Indian Territory in the 1880s.
		A significant collection related to Fort Union National Monument is stored at the Western Archaeological and Conservation Center in Tucson; contact Stephanie Rodeffer, 520-670-6501, ext.
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	Fort Union Gas Gathering Notices
		Fort Union Gas Gathering, LLC, cashout price for June 2003 is: $4.6100/Dth.
		Fort Union Gas Gathering, LLC, cashout price for December 2002 is: $3.0940/Dth.
		Fort Union Gas Gathering, LLC, cashout price for June 2002 is: $1.230/Dth.
	www.fortuniongg.com /notices.html (562 words)

	Ft Union Photos 1
		Once the largest post in the Southwest, the third Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts.
		The arrival of the railroad and the pacification of the region led to its abandonment in 1891.
		West of the third Fort Union, near the base of the mesa, are the ruins of the Fort Union Arsenal, shown slightly right from center below the trees.
	www.newmexicoet.com /ft_union_photos_1.htm (696 words)

	Colorado History - The Santa Fe Trail and Fort Union
		The Sante Fe Trail and Fort Union
		Captain Grover - The New Fort Union, the Confederate Threat
		Fort Union Arsenal, William Shoemaker, End of Fort Union
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	Fort Union National Monument - Facilities - US-Parks.com
		Fort Union National Monument is located 8 miles off of I25 at exit 366 on NM highway 161.
		Fort Union National Monument is closed New Years, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
		The visitor center exhibits tell of the construction of the three forts, the frontier army at Fort Union, the New Mexico volunteers, the Civil War in New Mexico, and the Santa Fe Trail.
	www.us-parks.com /fort_union/facilities.html (342 words)

	Message Board - Canoe trip, Fort Union @ HistoricalTrekking.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We arrived at Fort Union in time for their annual living histroy days.
		Fort Union is an incredible place to visit.
		We camped in the voyager camp with Jeff and Kathy Brown from Pinedale, WY. If you have never been to Fort Union, it has to be put on your list of future stops.
	www.historicaltrekking.com /mb/read.php?f=1&t=4991&a=2 (326 words)

	Virtual Guidebook to Pueblo Country - Fort Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first Fort Union, faint earthworks from the Civil War.
		The Fort Union Depot, supply point for the New Mexico frontier.
		Stone cells of the military prison, Fort Union.
	www.virtualguidebooks.com /NewMexico/PuebloCountry/FortUnion/FortUnion_TOC.html (54 words)

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