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Fort Whoop Up
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Caption: Fort Whoop Up
Additional Description: Fort Whoop-up was a notorious whiskey trading center on the Alberta prairie. Traders from Montana founded the post — and flew the Stars and Stripes. The establishment of Fort Whoop-up led to the formation of the Northwest Mounted Police.
Submitted: December 1, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p553586
File Size: 0.025 Megabytes

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