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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.3
trading post, and for the protection of public goods, a site for a fort and trading post was selected by Lieut. Kinsley & Mr. J. W. Johnson, U. S. P. Nine miles above Rapid des Moine a stockade was thrown up of small pickets, 5 feet high; the winter quarters for the company, which consisted of about 50 men besides the officers, formed the rear of the stockade; the barracks were low (but one story); there were two gates, one in front, next the river and a small gate
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