Fur Trade Museum & Bordeaux Trading Post Site in Chadron, Nebraska
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Three miles east of Chadron, Nebraska, the Museum of the Fur Trade occupies what was once James Bordeaux’s trading post, established for the American Fur Company in 1837. Today, visitors can walk through a reconstructed version of the trade site that was built on the original foundation stones and postholes. The site’s story is bigger than a simple log outpost on the plains, however. In the aftermath of the Civil War, conditions on the Northern Plains became unstable, and trade often degenerated
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