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FUR TRADE SYMPOSIUM:
The Society is sponsoring and organizing a series of lectures about the fur trade era that will be held in Three Forks on September 9th through the 11th, 2010. This is the 200th anniversary of the building of the "Fort Three Forks" trading post by the Missouri Fur Company led by Pierre Menard and Andrew Henry in April 1810.
Registration is now open for the 2010 Fur Trade Symposium. There are two ways to register and pay. You can go to the Museum on-line gift shop to register and pay, or download the registration form, fill it out and mail us a check or your credit card information.
The Society is pleased to announce that noted historian and speaker Hal Stearns will give the keynote address. The Society is hopeful that attendees and those locals interested will be able to tour the approximate locale of the original Fort Three Forks, located near the Jefferson and Madison River confluence.
The following appears in the July 7, 2010 edition of the Three Forks Herald
Fur Trade Symposium Update
Members of the Historical Society learned that 30 people are currently registered to attend the 2010 Fur Trade Symposium to be held September 9 - 11. The early registration fee of $150 has been extended to August 1. The registration fee allows attendance to all fourteen presentations, the guided tour around the headwaters area, as well as "sack lunches" provided by local restaurants, and the barbeque finale on Saturday evening at the Sacajawea Hotel. After August 1, prices go up to $165 per person. More details and registration information can be found on the Society's web site, www.tfhistory.org.
The Society has set aside fifteen half-price registrations available to life-time members of the Three Forks Area Historical Society only. As of the Thursday meeting, only two life-time members have taken advantage of the $75 tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear the nationally renowned speakers, including keynote speaker Hal Stearns.
The Symposium Committee is planning to have several demonstrators and vendors in Three Forks that weekend, not only for attendees, but open to the public. In addition, tickets to the Saturday barbeque can be purchased by non-attendees for $25 ($30 after August 1). The meal will be specially created and catered by the chef at the (Sacajaewa Hotel) Pompey's Grill and will feature some period recipes. The O’Neill’s will be providing music during the barbeque.
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Thursday - Pick up registration packets at Sacajawea Hotel
Thursday Afternoon - 1:00 PM - Tour to Ft Three Forks and Headwaters State Park
Thursday Evening - 6:00 PM - Social / Mixer
Friday Morning - Keynote address by Hal Stearns
Friday - Speakers (lunch provided - dinner on your own)
Saturday Morning - Speakers (lunch provided)
Saturday Afternoon - Panel Discussions
Saturday Evening - Barbeque with Steve and Susan O’Neill playing music
PRESENTERS FOR THE THREE FORKS FUR TRADE SYMPOSIUM
Topics and titles finalized.
Hal Stearns - Author and Historian, Helena, MT Keynote Speaker: History of the Three Forks Area
Dr. James Hanson - Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron, NE The Mystery of the Three Forks Anvil.
Dr. John Logan Allen - Historian and Author, Laramie, WY The Forgotten Explorers: William Clark and the "Master Map" of 1810-1812
Mark Kelly - Archaeologist, Attorney and Author, Leavenworth, KS The Evacuation of Three Forks (per Dougherty Map)
Larry Morris - Editor and Author, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT The Peeagans Had Attacked a Hunting Party: The Montana Fur Trade from 1807 to 1810
Paul Raczka - Art Historian, Ethnologist with Emphasis on the Blackfoot Peoples, Chouteau, MT Posted: No Trespassing; The Blackfoot and the American Fur Trappers
Allen Chronister - Attorney, Plains Indian/Fur Trade Material Culture Researcher and Author, Helena MT Ceremonial Trade on the Plains
Jim Hardee - Editor, Fur Trade Journal; Executive Director, Fur Trade Research Center, Tetonia, ID The Fort at the Forks - A Good State of Defense
Clay J. Landry - Fur Trade Researcher and Author, Whitehall, MT When Appraised of Danger-A Host Unto Himself, Michael Immel, Fur Man.
Dr. Dan Flores - A.B. Hammond Chair at the University of Montana University of Montana, Missoula, MT The Horse Trade in the Early American West between 1780-1825
Rich Aarstad - Archivist, Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT "This Unfortunate Affair": An 1810 Letter from the Three Forks of the Missouri
Lysa Wegman-French - US National Park Service Historian, Denver, CO. Recent Historical and Archaeological Investigations Toward Finding Manual Lisa's 1807 Fort
C. Adrian Heidenreich - Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Sociology, Political Science, and Native American Studies, Montana State University - Billings, Billings, MT The Western Tipi Pole of Crow Territory: Tribes, Fur Trade, and the Three Forks Area
Cody Merchant - Site Director, American West Heritage Center, Cache Valley, UT John Colter at the Three Forks
During the tour, the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Mountain Men will demonstrate at Headwaters State Park.
During the symposium, the Manuel Lisa Party of the American Mountain Men will have a Trapper's Camp at Milwaukee Park in Three Forks
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VENDORS AND DEMONSTRATORS
Venues for vendors and demonstrators will be open to the public. Vendors and demonstrators will be selected based on their relevance to the fur trade era between the 1800s and the 1840s. If you are interested in becoming a vendor or demonstrator at the 2010 Fur Trade Symposium, click here to sign up online or download the form and mail to us.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Accommodations will not be included in the registration fee. The Three Forks Chamber of Commerce has information regarding local businesses, hotels and restaurants. Headquarters for the event will be at the historic Sacajawea Hotel, with the papers being presented at the historic Ruby Theater. Hotels are also available in Whitehall (31 miles west), Belgrade (20 miles east) and Bozeman (30 miles east).
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