Fraeb's Last Fight and How Battle Creek Got Its Name
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Fraeb's Last Fight and How Battle Creek Got Its Name
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Historical article about Henry Fraeb, "partner in the famous Rocky Mountain Fur Company and subsequently proprietor on the South Platte River." Fraeb was a mountain man in northern Colorado and a German from Saint Louis who worked with Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jim Bridger, Milton Sublette, and Old Bill Williams, from 1829 through the 1830s. He co-founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which dissolved in 1834, and was killed in a battle with Indians in 1841 on the Snake River while a partner of Jim Bridger at a Green River trading post.
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Creator: Hafen, LeRoy R.
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1930-05
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Colorado Magazine
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Periodical
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This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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