The fur trading firm of D. M. Frost & Co. of St. Louis, who had been trading at Pierre and at other points in the upper c o u n t r y , was given charge of the United States property, consisting principally of the buildings and material at Fort Pierre and also at Fort Lookout, which had likewise been abandoned. Maj. Charles E. Galpin, who was in the employ of the American Fur Company at the time, took the contract for taking down and removing a …
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