French trader, James Bordeaux
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content: The author's grandfather was a native of France. He sailed to North America when still in his youth and landed in New Orleans. He continued north to St Louis, thence to St Joe, Mo., where he married an Indian maid of the Otto tribe. After her death he started west eager for adventure, and arrived in the Laramie plains in Dakota Territory now in the state of Wyoming. He established a trading post on the Platte River, within sight of old Fort Laramie, and later in 1846 he established a substation in Dawes County, Nebraska, on Bordeaux creek near the town of Chadron. It was during this era that he married my grandmother, a sister of chief Swift Bear of the Brule band. He was one of the early French fur traders. Daily surrounded by hostiles he bravely carried on his trade and barter with emigrants as their covered prairie-schooners rumbled west through the Platte river valley.
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content: These were the days when life's survival hung in a balance for the coming of civilization was daily harassed by hostile Indians. Well aware of these dangers Bordeaux and other fur traders waged on in their occupations, and it might be safe in stating that they did their share towards redeeming of the great west and paving the way for its evolution. His final business enterprise was located at the old Wheeler crossing on the banks of the Missouri river in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. He established a trading post there and continued its operation up to the late spring in 1878, when the Brule Sioux were moved from the river to their present abode on the Rosebud Indian reservation in the counties of Gregory, Tripp, Mellette and Todd. He died at the Agency in 1878. William J. Bordeaux, Custer's Conqueror, [1952 ?], following page 12.
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Sioux
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content: Sioux
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content: French
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content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: Date: not recorded; prior to 1878, which is, according to the source of this picture, his death date.

James Bordeaux was associated with Fort Laramie after its establishment, and later with the Upper Platte and Spotted Tail Agencies.
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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