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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORP_major-general-philippe-regis-de-trobriand_Sinclair-WY.html
commander of Fort Fred Steele from October, 1871 until September, 1873; was born an aristocrat in Tours, France, but came to America as a soldier of fortune to fight in the Civil War. Commissioned as Colonel in 31st Infantry, he commanded Fort Ste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORO_major-general-frederick-steele_Sinclair-WY.html
General Steele commanded a division of the Union Army at Vicksburg. Later he commanded all Union forces on the line of the Arkansas, exercising President Lincoln's policy of conciliation and reconstruction. At the end of the war he served in Texas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OR1_carbon-timber-company_Sinclair-WY.html
Construction of the Union Pacific Railroad stimulated the growth of the timber industry in southern Wyoming. Two companies began supplying ties to the railroad in 1868, but the firm of Coe and Carter was the leading supplier to the Fort Fred Steel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OR0_a-well-traveled-sawmill_Sinclair-WY.html
The Fort Fred Steele sawmill had traveled thousands of miles by rail and wagon prior to its arrival and installation here, along the North Platte River. The Lane and Bodley 15 horsepower steam-driven sawmill began its journey through the military …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQZ_town-of-ft-steele_Sinclair-WY.html
In 1901, the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company included a plat of Ft. Steel in its insurance rating of the town. The town had not grown as planned, probably due to the closeness of Rawlins and that the timber industry had started building its own t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQX_thornburghs-command_Sinclair-WY.html
Thornburgh's Command Defended Themselves Behind a Breastwork....
of barrels, sacks of flour, wagons and dead horses as Ute Indians rained bullets down bluffs along Milk Creek. The battle that raged from about noon on Monday, September 29, 1879,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQU_rock-springs-massacre_Sinclair-WY.html
Anglo-European Coal Miners Near Rock Springs, Wyoming... killed 26 Chinese on Thursday afternoon, September 3, 1885, and torched their nearby settlement. More than 550 others Orientals fled into the hills. Two days later, Fort Fred Steele's Comma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQT_major-thomas-tipton-thornburgh_Sinclair-WY.html
Major Thomas Tipton Thornburgh, 4th Infantry... left Fort Fred Steele on September 21, 1879 with his regiment's Company E, plus Company E, 3rd Cavalry and Companies D and F, 5th Cavalry, in response to a complaint by U.S. Indian Agent N.C. Meeke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OPR_brownsville-and-benton_Sinclair-WY.html
During construction of the Union Pacific Railroad land speculators and a large contingent of undesirables kept pace with or move ahead of the construction crews and their military escorts. Townsite speculators tried to anticipate depot locations, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OPQ_railroad-and-river_Sinclair-WY.html
The Union Pacific Railroad and the North Platte River are important parts of the story of Fort Fred Steele. Located where these two great resources met, the fort and the local industries surrounding it would depend upon the rails and water for sup…