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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q75_salt-creek-oil-field_Casper-WY.html
The famous Salt Creek oil field is located in Natrona County, 40 miles north of Casper. Representative Stephen W. Downey was the first man to acquire land at Salt Creek in 1883, after the discovery of the Jackass Spring oil seep. The discovery oil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q53_indians-of-wyoming_Casper-WY.html
At the time of the great migration of emigrants through Wyoming to the Pacific coast and Utah, Indians were the largest group of residents in Wyoming. Many of these tribes such as Utes and Blackfeet, were semi-permanent and nomadic, traveling in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q52_robert-stuart-cabin-site_Casper-WY.html
Approximately eight miles southwest of here, Robert Stuart built the first cabin in the state of Wyoming. The cabin was built in a three day period in early November,1812, at a site on the North Platte River at Bessemer Bend.
Robert Stuart was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q51_the-mormons_Casper-WY.html
Brigham Young led the first group of Mormons west from winter quarters in Nebraska in 1847, finally settling in the Salt Lake Valley. When these pioneers crossed the river here, they left nine men to operate a ferry. This ferry served fellow Mormo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q50_military-explorers_Casper-WY.html
John C. Fremont, the "Pathfinder", was born in 1813 and explored a large portion of central Wyoming including the Casper area. He made an independent survey to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming in 1842, and the 13,743' Fremont Peak of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q4Z_oregon-california-mormon-trails_Casper-WY.html
From 1840 to 1869, over 350,000 emigrants traveled past this area on the Oregon/California /Mormon Trails. The promise of free land, sudden riches, or religious freedom caused these pioneers to endure great hardships. Thousands of persons died in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q4U_the-upper-crossing_Casper-WY.html
The North Platte River that we see today is considerably different than the river that the 1847 pioneer party had to cross. As series of dams upstream from this site strictly regulates the flow of water on a year round basis.
(Map of Platte Ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q4S_the-road-to-zion_Casper-WY.html
From the late 1840s through the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 Mormons passed by here on their way to their "New Zion" in Utah. Starting from Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846, the first group of at least 13,000 Mormons crossed int…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q4Q_site-of-old-platte-bridge_Casper-WY.html
Built by Louis Gurnard
1858-59
Immediately south and west are the sites of Platte Bridge Station, First Overland Telegraph, Stage, and Pony Express Stations on the Old Oregon Trail
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q4M_guinard-bridge_Casper-WY.html
The center piece of the Platte Bridge Station and Fort Caspar was the bridge built here by Louis Guinard in 1859-1860 and used until Fort Caspar was abandoned in 1867. The bridge superstructure stood on 28 timber cribbings filled with rock and gra…