The Story Behind a Nassau Bottle Excavated at Historic Fort Snelling
For millennia, Native American people traveled and traded on the Mississippi River. When colonial powers moved into North America, they quickly saw the importance of controlling transportation and the movement of goods on the river. In 1820, The United States government established Fort Snelling at...
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| description | For millennia, Native American people traveled and traded on the Mississippi River. When colonial powers moved into North America, they quickly saw the importance of controlling transportation and the movement of goods on the river. In 1820, The United States government established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers to protect American fur trade interests in the region and to gain a foothold in the western territory that would become Minnesota. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb6151f44b234fd98afec940c9b93b202022-12-22T00:39:45ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2018-02-01Issue Nine : Winter 2018https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.3718The Story Behind a Nassau Bottle Excavated at Historic Fort SnellingNancy Buck HoffmanFor millennia, Native American people traveled and traded on the Mississippi River. When colonial powers moved into North America, they quickly saw the importance of controlling transportation and the movement of goods on the river. In 1820, The United States government established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers to protect American fur trade interests in the region and to gain a foothold in the western territory that would become Minnesota. https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-story-behind-a-nassau-bottle-excavated-at-historic-fort-snelling/ anthropologyarchaeologyengagementminnesotapublic programsresearch |
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