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Three miles east of Chadron, Nebraska, the Museum of the Fur Trade occupies what was once James Bordeaux’s trading post, established for the American Fur Company in 1837. Today, visitors can walk through a reconstructed version of the trade site that was built on the original foundation stones and postholes.

The site’s story is bigger than a simple log outpost on the plains, however. In the…

The Princess Mishawaka statue and plaque in Mishawaka, Indiana is a tribute to the legend of a Shawnee Indian maiden, Mishawaka, daughter of Chief Elkhart. There are different versions of Mishawaka's life and a question of whether she was even real.

The plaque tells the story that Princess Mishawaka was a fierce warrior and, after her father was injured in a battle with the Potawatomi, she led…

Maconaquah had a decision to make. She could continue the life she had known for over 58 years, or return to civilization with her siblings.

Born in Rhode Island in 1773 as Frances Slocum, she was captured by Delaware Indians in November 1778 from her home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She was taken west by the Delaware into what would later become the states of Ohio and Indiana. She married a…