Larocque, François Antoine

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Dates:
Birth 1782
Death 1866

Biographical notes:

In 1784, Larocque joined the XY Company as a clerk, working in the region of the Assiniboine River from 1802 to 1804. In the autumn of 1804 he left Fort Assiniboine, with Charles Mackenzie, Jean-Baptiste Lafrance, and four other voyagers, to go to the Mandan villages on the banks of the Missouri. Laroque, who had been sent to the United States to learn English after his father's death in 1792, preferred to write in English.

From the description of A journal of the voyage to the Rocky Mountains, from my leaving the Assiniboine River, on the 2nd June 1805 : manuscript, [1805?]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612813038

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Subjects:

  • Crow Indians
  • Fur trade
  • Indians of North America
  • Mandan Indians

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Places:

  • Canada (as recorded)
  • New Orleans (La.) (as recorded)
  • Havana (Cuba) (as recorded)
  • Northwestern States (as recorded)
  • Saint Louis (Mo.) (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)