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tion may be the sam,e as the island referred to above, lying in sections 

 32 and 33.) "We had to cut the brush away," Wandel is quoted as 

 saying, "because the Indians would lay there and kill people. They 

 did that several times, the Kees [Arikara] and Gros Ventres 

 [Hidatsa]." Wandel added that the "second Fort Pierre" stood 

 until the "steamboat people" took the houses, i.e., for fuel ; "Nobody 

 knows how it was burned up." From his accomit, quoted verbatim 

 by DeLand (1902, pp. 369-370) it is clear that persons other than 

 steamboat-fuel suppliers made use of the materials from the second 

 post; Wandel refers to freighters of army supplies as also taking 

 what they needed. 



Basil Claymore (or Clement), another informant, also testified 

 concerning Fort Pierre II — situated "at the foot of the island." 

 Claymore stated positively that Gal pin was in charge of both old Fort 

 Pierre and the new post, remaining in charge until the company quit 

 business in the area (i.e., about 1865), though he also added that he 

 (Claymore) had served under two "bosses" — Galpin and Primpau. 

 Charles Primeau appears to have been in charge of "New Fort Pierre" 

 in June 1862 (perhaps during a temporary absence of Galpin), at the 

 time of the murder of Bear's Rib, an important Dakota chief favor- 

 able to the Wliites, by a group of hostiles — an event referred to in 

 several sources (Primeau, "agent in Charge of Ft. Pierre," June 20, 

 1862, and Samuel N. Latta, Yancton, D. T., Aug. 27, 1862, smnma- 

 rized by W. G. Robinson, 1954, vol. 27, pp. 298-299, 305-306 ; testi- 

 mony, of Wandel and Claymore in DeLand, 1902, pp. 366-368) . 



The matter of the precise location of Fort Pierre II, more fully 

 dealt with in the following section, is of importance in view of the 

 fact that, as has been seen, there were several separate but roughly 

 contemporaneous posts in the vicinity, at least two of them in the 

 immediate neighborhood (Fort Galpin and Fort Pierre II). Brief 

 mention will here be made of two further establishments, of somewhat 

 later date on the basis of available evidence. (Several clearly erro- 

 neous statements about these various posts appear in the general 

 article by Wilson, 1902; DeLand, 1902, has corrected these errors.) 



DeLand's data record the former existence of a Fort Laframboise 

 (i.e., the second of that name, not to be confused with that of 1817 

 at the mouth of the Bad River) , which he locates in sec. 25, T. 6 N., 

 R. 31 E. (DeLand, 1902, pp. 365-366 and map; Mattison, 1954, pp. 

 31-32, places the site in sec. 30, T. 6 N., R. 30 E.). This post is said 

 to have been established by the firm of La Barge, Harkness, and Com- 

 pany in 1862 and to have been operated, for a short time only, by 

 Frank Laframboise, a descendant of Joseph, previously mentioned. 

 The location given would place the site in the immediate vicinity of 

 the Oahe Dam, but it has been impossible to verify the statement. In 

 all probability, any remains at this point were obliterated during the 



