Daniel R. Rice
Storyteller Daniel R. Rice,
Dean of Education and Human
Development, UND
Email: danrice@mail.und.edu
Phone: 701746 5950
Will Portray Alexander Henry,
(The Younger) Plainsman, Hunter,
Trapper
Alexander Henry (The Younger) was one of the early fur traders along the Red River in the 1790s. He may have helped establish the first non-Indian trading post at Grand Forks. Native peoples gathered at the fork of the rivers to trade for hundreds of years before the European traders arrived. Henry traveled up and down the Red River, built a post near the mouth of Park River, and spent time at Pembina, as well. He worked for the North West Company, a major competitor of the Hudson Bay Company. He wrote one of the most comprehensive and lengthy journals of any trapper and trader during this period. He began writing his journal in 1799. The company eventually sent him as far west as the Columbia River where he accidentally drowned in 1814.
