NOV 9: Saleesh House Established

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An American fur trapper. (Credit: Library of Congress)

On Nov. 9, 1809, Welsh-Canadian explorer David Thompson establishes Saleesh House as a fur-trading post of the North West Company on the Clark Fork River near modern-day Thompson Falls, Montana.

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