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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/HM1IHX_if-i-should-die-before_Lingle-WY.html
Many emigrants journals and diaries from the 1840s to 1860s mention experiences such as; "nooning," camping for the night, crossing over, or burying a loved one on the banks of Rawhide Creek. Of these experiences, death and disease were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IHW_mormon-pioneers-at-fort-laramie_Lingle-WY.html
Between the years 1847 and 1868, most of the approximate 80,000 Mormon Pioneers passed through Fort Laramie. This was the first stop for the vanguard company after leaving Winter Quarters, (near Omaha) Nebraska. In June, 1847, after following a …
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IHF_fort-laramie-national-historic-site_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The epic story of America's western expansion played out on a grand scale at Fort Laramie, where the North Platte and Laramie Rivers meet. Fort Laramie was first established in 1834 as a private fur trading post. By the 1840's, it served as an i…
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