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Antoine Robidoux's Indian and fur trading post, Fort Wintey or Uintah, built 8 miles north of here in 1832, was the first yearlong abode of white men in what is now Utah. It stood on the trail from Taos, New Mexico to the Pacific northwest, and from Utah Lake to the Platte River region. Many trappers traded and wintered there, and several distinguished travelers sojourned there, including Kit Carson, Joseph Williams, Rufus B. Sage, Marcus Whitman, A.L. Lovejoy and John C. Fremont, before Indians burned the post in 1844.
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Fort Duchesne, Utah · United States
