Oregon Trail Ruts

Oregon Trail Ruts (HM3BH)

Location: Guernsey, WY 82214 Platte County
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N 42° 15.418', W 104° 44.933'

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Registered National Historic Landmark

Wagon wheels cut solid rock, carving a memorial to Empire Builders. what manner of men and beasts impelled conveyances weighting on those griding wheels? Look! A line of shadows crossing boundless wilderness.

Foremost, nimble mules drawing their carts, come poised Montain Men carrying trade goods to a fur fair — the Rendezvous. So, in 1830, Bill Sublette turns the first wheels from St. Louis to the Rocky Mountains! Following his faint trail, a decade later and on throught the 1860's, appear straining, twisting teams of oxen, mules and heavy draft horses drawing Conestoga wagons for Oregon pioneers. Trailing the Oregon-bound avant garde but otherwise mingling with those emigrants, inspired by religious fervor, loom footsore and trail worn companies — Mormons dragging or pushing handcarts as they follow Brigham Young to the Valley of the Salt Lake. And, after 1849, reacting to a differnt stimulus but sharing the same trail, urging draft animals to extremity, straining resources and often failing, hurry gold rushers California bound.

A different breed, no emigrants but enterprisers and adventurers, capture the 1860's scene. They appear, multi-teamed units in draft — heavy wagons in tandem, jerkline operators and bullwhackers delivering freight to Indian War outposts and agencies. Now the apparition fades in a changing environment. Dimley seen, this last commerce serves a new, pastoral society; the era of the cattle baron and the advent of settlement blot the Oregon Trail.
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HM NumberHM3BH
Series This marker is part of the National Historic Landmarks series, and the Oregon Trail series.
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Placed ByGuernsey State Park
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Date Added Saturday, September 27th, 2014 at 7:10pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)13T E 520713 N 4678338
Decimal Degrees42.25696667, -104.74888333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 15.418', W 104° 44.933'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 15' 25.08" N, 104° 44' 55.98" W
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Area Code(s)307
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2-20 Unnamed Road, Guernsey WY 82214, US
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