Cuthbert DuCharme’s Trading Post Ledger

The Archives and Special Collections has acquired Cuthbert DuCharme’s (also known as Old Papineau) trading post ledger. The post was located along the Missouri River and the military road near present-day Geddes, South Dakota. The ledger covers the years 1869 to 1872.

For information on DuCharme see John Andrews et al, South Dakota Outlaws and Scofflaws: Did Outlaws and Scandalous Ancestors Shape South Dakota’s Culture? Yankton, SD: South Dakota Magazine, 2012. DuCharme is also discussed in Wayne Fanebust, Outlaw Dakota: The Murderous Times and Criminal Trials of Frontier Judge Peter C. Shannon, Sioux Falls, SD: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, 2016.

For information on the ledger see Daniel Daily, “$5 for a coffin: trading at Papineauville, Dakota Territory”, in Papers of the Forty-Third Annual Dakota Conference, compiled by Kristi Thomas and Harry F. Thompson, Sioux Falls, SD: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2011, 50-61.

Image by Abigail Sandberg.