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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZK_the-best-mountain-road-in-the-west_Boulder-WY.html
This maker consists of three plaques, each dealing with the Lander Cut-off.
"The Best Mountain Road in the West"
In 1857, Congress funded construction of the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lakes Wagon Road (Lander Road), marking…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYW_the-prairie-of-the-mass_Daniel-WY.html
Rev. Pierre DeSmet (1801-1873) was born in Belgium but came to America in 1821, joined by the Jesuit Society and began his work with the Indians. In his work, he established 16 treaties, crossed the ocean 19 times and traveled 180,000 miles on his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYV_pinckey-w-sublette_Daniel-WY.html
Buried on Fontenelle Creek, exhumed 1897, taken to the U.S.Circuit Court at St. Louis, Mo., returned by a court order to Sublette County, Wyoming to be buried here July 27, 1935.
Placed
July 4, 1936
The Historical Landmark Commission
of W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYU_narcissa-prentiss-whitman_Daniel-WY.html
To
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
and
Eliza Hart Spalding
Missionaries
First white women in Wyoming
and
First women over Oregon Trail
1836
July 6 to July 18 was spent at
"Green River Rendezvous"
These pilgrim women to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYS_rendezvous-birth-of-an-empire_Pinedale-WY.html
The river below is the Green. The mountains to the west are the Wyomings (Bear Rivers). Those to the the east, the Windrivers. Along the river banks below are the Rendezvous sites of 1833, 1835 (New Fork), 1836, 1837 (Cottonwood), 1839, 1840 and F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYP_first-holy-mass-in-wyoming_Daniel-WY.html
Holy Mass
was offered here
for the first time
in Wyoming by
Father DeSmet
July 5 1840
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYG_the-oregon-trail_Lander-WY.html
The Oregon Trail
In memory of those who passed this way to win and hold the West
Plaque placed by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming
1950
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19MK_the-parting-of-the-ways_Lander-WY.html
In July 1844 the California bound Stevens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train, guided by Isaac Hitchcock and 81-year old Caleb Greenwood, passed this point and continued nine and one half miles southwest from here, to a place destined to become prominent …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19MJ_parting-of-the-ways_Lander-WY.html
This marks a fork in the trail, right to Oregon, left to Utah and California.
1812, Robert Stuart and eastbound Astorians used South Pass gateway.
1824, Eleven westbound Ashley-Henry men led by Jedediah Smith and Thomas Fitzpatrick.
1832,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19MI_parting-of-the-ways_Lander-WY.html
Trail ruts at this site were mistakenly identified as the Parting-of-the-Ways where emigrant parties separated on their journeys to Oregon, California, or Utah.
The actual Parting-of-the-Ways is approximately 10 miles west of this spot. Where y…