Built in 1850 along the North Platte River in Goshen County, Ash Point was a modest one-room post that briefly traded horses before burning in 1852. Its later owners went on to establish a well-known post at Fort Laramie.
James Bordeaux built an independent trading post at Sarpy’s Point on the North Platte after the 1849 sale of Fort John. For two decades it served Lakota bands and Oregon Trail emigrants and stood near the outbreak of the 1854 Grattan Fight.