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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TNG_lieutenant-j-c-fremonts-week-in-sublette-county-historical_Pinedale-WY.html
On June 10th, 1842, J. C. Fremont left St. Louis to explore the Wind River Mountains, with Kit Carson as guide, Charles Preuss, topographer, L. Maxwell, hunter, and 20 Canadian voyageurs, including Basil LaJeunesse. Eight two-wheeled mule-drawn ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKE_pinedale-historic-district_Pinedale-WY.html
Mr. John F. Patterson, known as the Founder of Pinedale, proposed establishing a town at this location. He offered to build and stock a general store if local ranchers Charles A. Petersen and Mr. Robert O. Graham each donated five acres for the to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKC_a-pause-on-a-journey_Pinedale-WY.html
On Oct. 16, 1812, the Astorians (Robert Stuart, Ramsay Crooks, Robert McClellan, Joseph Miller, Benjamin Jones, Francis Eclair and Andy Vallee) passed this way and forded Pine Creek near here, the first white men known to have seen it. They were r…
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Sir William Drummond Stewart of Scotland can be called Wyoming's first tourist. Stewart attended every summer rendezvous from 1833 to 1838, during the heyday of the mountain man fur trade. Four of those gatherings took place nearby, at the conflue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZO_fort-bonneville_Pinedale-WY.html
In May of 1832, Captain Benjamin Bonneville left Fort Osage, Missouri with an expedition consisting of one hundred and ten men and twenty wagons, headed for the Rocky Mountain West. Upon his arrival in the Green River Valley, he ordered immediate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IYS_rendezvous-birth-of-an-empire_Pinedale-WY.html
The river below is the Green. The mountains to the west are the Wyomings (Bear Rivers). Those to the the east, the Windrivers. Along the river banks below are the Rendezvous sites of 1833, 1835 (New Fork), 1836, 1837 (Cottonwood), 1839, 1840 and F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVPA_welcome-to-the-riparian-community-of-duck-creek_Pinedale-WY.html
Duck Creek riparian community is a diverse and complex society of living organisms. Wild brown trout feed on caddisfly nymphs, which live in self-made stick and stone shelters, clinging to the rocks. Yellow warblers and flycatchers next in willow …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVP8_astorian-camp_Pinedale-WY.html
On this site, Oct. 18, 1811, sixty-one Astorians of the Pacific Fur Company led by Wilson Price Hunt camped for 5 days. They were on their way to the Pacific Ocean from St. Louis and were the second group to cross the continent, just 5 years after…
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