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Bookmark or Share- Fort Union National Monument - WikipediaFort Union National Monument is a unit of the United States National Park Service located 7.7 miles north of Watrous in Mora County, New Mexico. The site preserves the remains of three forts that were built starting in the 1850s.
- Fort Union's Fur Trade Origins - Fort Union Trading Post National ... - NPSA brief history of Fort Union's fur trade origins and its national significance. Fort Union established by the American Fur Company and later known as the Upper Missouri Outfit.
- Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site - WikipediaFort Union, possibly first known as Fort Henry or Fort Floyd, was built in 1828 or 1829 by the Upper Missouri Outfit managed by Kenneth McKenzie; it was capitalized by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, Astor having created a virtual monopoly in fur trading.
- Tour Fort Union Trading Post (U.S. National Park Service) - NPSHistorically the fort was a bustling hub of activity, especially in the spring when steamboats arrived to resupply the fort and the Assiniboine and other Northern Indian Tribes arrive at the post to trade buffalo robes and other furs for manufactured trade goods.
- Fort Union, New Mexico – Protecting the Santa Fe TrailFort Union was the largest U.S. military post in the region, a bustling center of frontier defense in the Southwest for four decades, and a base for military and civilian ventures that molded its destiny.
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