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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QED_big-muddy-oil-field_Glenrock-WY.html
Big Muddy oil field is a typical Wyoming oil producing structure. The field, discovered in 1916, has produced over 30 million barrels of high quality oil. Strata here were arched upward at the time the Rocky Mountains originated about 60 million y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDY_alah-h-unthank_Glenrock-WY.html
Nineteen-year-old Alvah Unthank was one of a group of young men who left Newport, Wayne County, Indiana, for the goldfields of California in 1850. On June 23 the wagon train passed Register Cliff, south of Guernsey. There Alvah inscribed his name:…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDW_ada-magill_Glenrock-WY.html
Caleb and Nancy Magill with their six children were part of a wagon train traveling fro Brown County, Kansas, to Dallas, Oregon, in 1864. After leaving Fort Laramie their three-year-old daughter Ada was taken sick with dysentery. At Deer Creek Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDV_rock-in-the-glen_Glenrock-WY.html
On July 26, 1842 John C. Fremont's first expedition to the far west guided by Kit Carson with Joseph Bissonette as interpreter, also L. Maxwell as hunter, camped in this rocky glen.
Names and dates of many of the 300,000 travelers of the Orego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDU_deer-creek-station_Glenrock-WY.html
Deer Creek Station, which once stood on the site of present- day Glenrock near the confluence of Deer Creek and the North Platte River, became a familiar landmark along the Oregon-California-Mormon Trail between 1857 and 1866.
The station began…