MOC: Frontier Trading Post

Frontier Trading Post MOC

One of the things I enjoy is the outdoors, and another is history, especially North American history. Combining these interests with LEGO pieces, can lead to some really fun builds. This particular MOC is a frontier trading post along the western frontier of North America sometime during the 18th centaury.

 

There are members of the local Native American Indian tribe coming in with their fresh furs to trade with the frontier settlers. As they are walking in, the keen eyes of these Native Americans catches the motion of a large grizzly bear as it rears up to attack one of the young frontier children at the edge of the forest, and they swiftly start to run to the young boy's rescue. The attacking bear has also been spotted by the lookout on the trading post wall, and he has dispatched some of the frontiersmen who are running out of the trading post to help their Native American friends. Moving deeper into the forest, there is a frontiersman who is hunting a couple of brick-build turkeys that will taste delicious for dinner.






Attacking Bear and Frontiersman Turkey Hunting

Coming through the trading post doors several frontier women are talking while their children play. Another frontiersman is running out in order to rescue the young boy from the bear, but will he be able to get there in time? Up on the lookout platform someone has left a hide on the stretching frame before it is tanned. Looking at the water well, it looks like someone has managed to fall in, or at least get their head stuck in the well, but I wonder if anyone will notice with all of the excitement outside.

Trading Post Interior

Walking into the store part of the trading post, there is a frontiersman chowing down on a fresh turkey drumstick, while his wife looks over some of the merchandise on the shelves. Some of the items in the trading post store include a barrel of delicious apples, a pile of silky furs, powder horns, cast iron cookware, jars of preserves, canisters of flour, and other items that might be useful on the frontier.

Trading Post Store

Looking at the layout from a birds perspective, can you spot the bird in this picture?

Frontier Trading Post Plan Layout