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Fur Trade Rendezvous at Ft. Washita
April 1, 2015
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Visit Fort Washita in Durant for the popular Fur Trade Rendezvous! Experience life on the western frontier at this living history event, which includes instructive programs in customs, survival skills, and lifestyles of the period. Visitors will encounter trappers representing the far northwest mountain areas to the desert southwest, as well as traders with French and Spanish influence. Visit Fort Washita and experience the sights, sounds, and smells of history. Attendees will travel through the camps where reenactors explain life on the frontier in the early nineteenth century.
On April 2 and 3, school groups are invited to bring students for two special “School Days,” with no charge for school buses. For others visiting the Fur Trade Rendezvous, there is an entrance fee of $5 per car.
