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In 1728 he was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of Lake Superior. Between 1731 and 1737 he built several trading posts between Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg; in 1738 he travelled southwest to the area of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. He was responsible for opening a large area of the west to French traders.

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• History of North DakotaThe History of North Dakota is not as dull as one might think; Certainly the subject matter seems that way on the surface. When Elwyn B. Robinson wrote the seminal History of North Dakota in the 1960s, few writers had fully tackled the subject. Early Hist