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Fort Hall
Fort Hall
was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
on the
Snake River
in the eastern
Oregon Country
, part of southeastern Idaho in the present-day
United States
. He was an inventor and businessman from
Boston, Massachusetts
, who also founded a post at
Fort William
, in present-day
Portland, Oregon
, as part of a plan for a new trading and fisheries company. Unable to compete with the powerful British
Hudson's Bay Company
, based at
Fort Vancouver
, in 1837 Wyeth sold both posts to it. Great Britain and the United States both operated in the
Oregon Country
in these years.
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