Fort Lisa (North Dakota)

With company assets allowing a large party of 300 men, Lisa left in 1809 on a fur expedition in the north.

I found attached to it a very pretty garden, in which were peas, beans, sallad, radishes, and other vegetables..."[4]Employees of the Pacific Fur Company visited Fort Lisa on the 23 June 1811.

[6] Henry Brackenridge during 1811 wrote in his journal that Sacagawea, the notable Native American guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was living at Fort Lisa with her husband Charbonneau.

The following year, John Luttig, a clerk at Fort Manuel Lisa, recorded in his journal on December 20, 1812, that "...the wife of Charbonneau, a Snake Squaw, died of putrid fever."

"[7][8] Charbonneau had already entrusted his and Sacagawea's son Jean Baptiste into Clark's care for a boarding school education.

[9] Difficulties with certain Indigenous nations and shipping at this location meant that by 1812, Fort Lisa ceased to be utilized by the MFC.