American Fur had spent years negotiating with…
1828 CE
It had been renamed the "Upper Missouri Outfit" division of American Fur, and in 1828, McKenzie goes up the river to lead the fur trade, building Fort Union near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.
McKenzie is a Scot by birth, a Canadian immigrant as a teenager.
He had become a clerk for the North West Company, learning the fur business.
Losing his job when his employer was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company, McKenzie had traveled to St. Louis in 1822, applied for U.S. citizenship and joined the Columbia Fur Company, heading it by the mid-1820s.
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