Vasquez
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Vasquez
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
In an area along the South Platte River in present day northern Colorado, competing fur companies in the 1830’s established a string of four adobe trading posts – Fort Vasquez, Fort St. Vrain, Fort Lupton and Fort Jackson. These forts were traversed by an old trapper’s trail which connected Fort Bent on the Arkansas with Fort Laramie on the North Platte. This country of wide horizons was the commercial center of a vast region. Here, trappers, traders, and Indians bartered calico, knives, and beads for buffalo robes and beaver skins.
Built in 1835 by Louis Vasquez, later a partner of Jim Bridger, and Andrew Sublette, Fort Vasquez was flanked by the South Platte River referred to as the Tallo River by fur trappers. In the spring of 1840, a Mackinaw boat was launched from the fort loaded with 700 buffalo robes and 400 buffalo lounges. The boat and its cargo reached St. Louis, Missouri in 69 days. Abandon in 1842, the fort was ransacked by Indians. Later partially restored, the fort sheltered gold rush emigrants and troops during Indian troubles.
Fort Vasquez on the Platte River was reconstructed at its original site from adobe bricks made from remains from its crumbling walls.
Some digital effects were applied to this original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark.
Image copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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April 4th, 2019
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