Spokane House Spokane Washington United States

Naukane travels with David Thompson as far as Spokane House, a fur trading post founded the previous year by the North West Company under Thompson’s direction.

Here, Naukane is left with Jaco Finlay while Thompson continues rapidly on.

The Pacific Fur Company had founded a rival post, known as Fort Spokane, immediately adjacent to Spokane House, in 1812, and declared to the native peoples of the region their readiness to compete for furs.

Trapping parties had been sent out over the winter to the Coeur d'Alene, Kootenay, and Flathead districts, previously controlled by the North West Company.

Fort Spokane is merged into Spokane House in 1813, when the North West Company buys out the Pacific Fur Company during the War of 1812.