#303 - Michel Bourdon
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Volcanoguy
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Idaho History Sign #303 about Michel Bourdon.
Waymark Code: WMC57F
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2011
Views: 6
An Idaho History Signs located on U.S. Hwy. 93 about a mile south of Challis. The subject of the sign is Michel Bourdon and the fur trade.
Marker Name: Michel Bourdon
Marker Type: Roadside
Marker Text:
This valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson’s Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon.
Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1809-9. Trappers searched everywhere for beaver, and were active south of here four years before Bourdon took them farther into this mountain wilderness. Fur hunting went on for another decade in these parts before the country was about trapped out and abandoned by the fur traders.
County: Custer
Group Responsible for Placement: State of Idaho
Marker Number: 303
City: Not listed
Date Dedicated: Not listed
Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed
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