Previously to this date, the Indians had learned to come to the rendezvous of free trappers, and many hundred of them journeyed annually to trade their peltries for the bright shining trinkets and tinsel so dear to their nature.

After naming the place "Fort William," it occurred to Campbell that there were other Fort Williams in the west, and to prevent confusion in shipments, goods addressed to this point were marked "Fort William on the Laramie."

In 1836, Adams and Sabylle built another stockade and trading post about a half-mile below Fort William on the Laramie, which they named "Fort John." after John P. Sarpy, who is a well known character in the history of Nebraska.

Jacques Laramie, whom we have had occasion to mention heretofore, and who had by his life and death given the river and the mountains a name, was only incidentally responsible for the rechristening of Fort William. How "Fort Laramie" became a name in history was told by Antoine Ladeau, an interpreter of half

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a century ago, who accompanied General Connor on his Powder river expedition.

Ladeau's father was a French-Creole and his mother a Pawnee squaw. When a small boy he was captured by the Sioux, by whom he was brought up. He was born on the Platte river, was an old timer at the Fort, and died about thirty years ago. This is the story handed down by John Hunton, now living at the old fort and who located there in the sixties.