2020 Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita
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.
Mark your calendar today so you don’t miss the next Fur Trade Rendezvous at Fort Washita at Fort Wichita in Durant, Oklahoma.
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