Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 6

A History of Rocky Mountain House

by Hugh A. Dempsey

Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Acton House, 1799-1821, and Rocky Mountain House, 1799-1834

Rocky Mountain House, 1835-61

Rocky Mountain House, 1866-75

Descriptions of Rocky Mountain House

Identification of Fort Sites

Appendix A: Trade Goods

Endnotes

Bibliography

Illustrations

1 Peigan Indians at Rocky Mountain House, 1871

2 Rocky Mountain House, 1866

3 Sketch by Jean l'Heureux, 1873

4 Detail of fort from sketch by Jean l'Heureux

5 Chimneys at Rocky Mountain House, about 1920