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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (until sometime soon after 1803): a "small stoccado fort" named for its commandant, abandoned after Fort Pickering (2) was built. (Fortescue Cuming, ''Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country'' (1807‑1809), reprinted in Thwaites' ''Early Western Travels'', [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/THWEWT/4/45*.html#p292 p292]). The early witness's report has been explained away by others; finally, there is doubt as to whether there was or was not a separate Fort Pike. | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (until sometime soon after 1803): a "small stoccado fort" named for its commandant, abandoned after Fort Pickering (2) was built. (Fortescue Cuming, ''Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country'' (1807‑1809), reprinted in Thwaites' ''Early Western Travels'', [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/THWEWT/4/45*.html#p292 p292]). The early witness's report has been explained away by others; finally, there is doubt as to whether there was or was not a separate Fort Pike. | ||
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Revision as of 20:55, 21 December 2014
Fort Pike (3) (until sometime soon after 1803): a "small stoccado fort" named for its commandant, abandoned after Fort Pickering (2) was built. (Fortescue Cuming, Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country (1807‑1809), reprinted in Thwaites' Early Western Travels, p292). The early witness's report has been explained away by others; finally, there is doubt as to whether there was or was not a separate Fort Pike.