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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQE_military-justice-punishment-harsh-and-certain_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
As long as you behaved yourself and performed your duty as a soldier, you got along alright.Sergeant Perley S. Eaton, 3rd CavalryFew soldiers completed their enlistments without experiencing the military justice system. Minor infractions resulted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQD_administration-building_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The large structure built on this site in 1885 - pictured shortly after completion - was put to many uses.The section on the far right was used as a schoolroom for officers' children. The central portion housed the Headquarters offices. The left p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQA_crossroads-of-a-nation-moving-west_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
Crossed the Laramie ford this morning and passed through the fort registering our names and found that . . . 16,913 men, Women 235, Children 242, Wagons 4,672, Horses 14,974, Mules, 4,641, Oxen 7,427, Cows 465, passed, besides nearly as many more…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQ5_handcarts-the-new-plan_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
We cannot afford to purchase wagons and teams as in times past. I am consequently thrown back upon my old plan - to make hand-carts, and let the emigration foot it . . . Brigham Young, 1855 Between 1856 and 1860, nearly 3,000 members of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQ4_embassy-on-the-northern-plains_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
As the main outpost of the U.S. Government on the Northern Plains, Fort Laramie served as an official meeting ground between the United States of America and the sovereign tribes of the Northern Plains.The first great treaty negotiation, the Treat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQ1_site-of-army-bridge_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The Laramie River was unpredictable and unchecked by dams. High water during the spring of the year often damaged or washed away existing bridges; therefore, from 1853 to post abandonment in 1890 the river was spanned by several successive bridges…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQ0_fort-william-and-the-fur-trade_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
In 1834, Robert Campbell and William Sublette established the first fort at the confluence of the North Platte and Laramie Rivers. Christened Fort William, the post was rectangular, measuring only 100 by 80 feet. Hewn cottonwood logs 15 feet high …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPZ_fort-john-the-second-fort-laramie_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
. . . the articles of trade consist, on the one side, almost entirely of buffalo robes; and, on the other, of blankets, calicoes, guns, powder, and lead, [and] . . . cheap ornaments such as glass beads, looking-glasses, rings, vermillion for paint…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IHH_old-bedlam_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
This graceful old structure, built in 1849, is the oldest standing building in Wyoming. It was nicknamed "Old Bedlam" because of boisterous sounds supposedly heard while it was occupied by bachelor officiers.
Shown in an 1889 photograp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IHG_the-greatest-ride-in-history_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
In memory of the Thoroughbred horse
ridden by
John "Portugee" Phillips
from Fort Phil Kearny Wyoming to Fort Laramie Wyoming December 24, and 25, 1866, when he's sought aid for the garrison at Fort Phil Kearny, which was surrounded…