guignas

Updated: June 20, 2025

A company was formed, and invested with a monopoly of the Sioux fur-trade, on condition of building a fort, mission-house, and chapel, and keeping an armed force to guard them. Father Guignas was made the head of the mission, and Boucher de la Perriere the military chief.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II