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2020 Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita

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Step back in time at the 29th Annual Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita on April 1-5, 2020 at Fort Washita in Durant, Oklahoma. Since 1981, Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita features a Living History Festival of America’s early explorers, trappers and traders. For a full week you can experience the commerce of the wild frontier as reenactors take visitors back to the time of fur trappers and traders at the Fur Trade Era Rendezvous, held at the Fort Washita Historic Site near Durant. Learn about the lifestyle of the time period between 1820 and 1850 through high-spirited competitions, educational stations and much more.

Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita

The Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita will include instructive programs in customs, survival skills and lifestyles of the period. Living history interpreters will showcase historical music, and food vendors will be on site.

“School Days” are scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Students can visit the camps where reenactors will explain life on the frontier in the early nineteenth century. Visit Fort Washita and experience the sights, sounds and smells of history. There is no entrance fee.

Bring your cameras and capture an era of the past to take home with you. Enjoy a picnic lunch with family and friends, or choose from a variety of modern food vendors available. Wednesday through Friday attractions at the Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita are historically geared toward school children.

For more information
Email: marissa.taylor@chickasaw.net or tommie.postoak@chickasaw.net; Call 580-924-6502.

Location
Fort Washita Hitoric Site
3348 State Rd. 199
Durant, OK 74701
(580) 924-6502

About Fort Washita
Fort Washita was built in 1842 as the southwestern-most military post of the United States. The mission of Fort Washita was to maintain peace for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations within their new lands, pursuant to treaty obligations. There were many outside threats to the new home of the Chickasaw people, including attacks by Republic of Texas militia, interference by unscrupulous intruders, constant raids by Plains tribes, the presence of traders and trappers, and unsettled scores with some of the Plains tribes due to disputes concerning hunting grounds in the Homeland. Fort Washita operated as a United States military post until the start of the Civil War in 1861. It was then occupied by Confederate forces through 1865. The fort was almost entirely destroyed by the Confederates as they fled at the end of the Civil War.

After the war, the fort was granted to the Chickasaw Nation and later the Dawes Commission allotted the fort and surrounding land to the Charles and Abbie Davis Colbert family.

The Oklahoma Historical Society acquired Fort Washita in 1962 and restored it as a historic site and museum. In 2016, the Chickasaw Nation partnered with the Oklahoma Historical Society to assume responsibility and management of Fort Washita. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designed as a National Historic Landmark.

Visitors to Fort Washita can tour restored structures, witness Civil War reenactments and take part in the yearly Fur Trade Era Rendezvous to experience what life was like before and during the Civil War. Other events throughout the year include storytelling, outdoor movies and special seasonal and holiday events that the whole family can enjoy.

Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita

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IMPORTANT EVENT NOTICE
Unfortunately, due to increasing costs, Crazy Crow Trading Post will no longer be able to maintain the Event Calendar by updating or adding new events.
The pages will remain active for a time as there are a number of events with current information and past events that may help you contact the sponsors for new information concerning location, dates & times!
Please do NOT contact Crazy Crow about these events, except for corrections to events with 2020 dates that are incorrect. Email date corrections directly to eventcoordinator@crazycrow.com. PLEASE DO NOT CALL, as we have nothing to do with the events and have only provided the listings as a free service.
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