Fort Bridger, Wyoming: Trading Post for Indians, Mountain Men and Westward MigrantsMcFarland, 15 Jan 2007 - 200 halaman For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger’s role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper’s journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering. |
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... Green River knives used by mountain men ( Photograph by the author ) 139 .... 140 Log cabin at Fort Bridger ( Photograph by the author List of Illustrations ix.
... Green River knives used by mountain men ( Photograph by the author ) 139 .... 140 Log cabin at Fort Bridger ( Photograph by the author List of Illustrations ix.
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... Green River and is used to make soda ash and other sodium chemicals ; these in turn are used for making glass , paper and detergents . " Larry " Syversen , an expert on the frontier West , gave me detailed infor- mation on some of the ...
... Green River and is used to make soda ash and other sodium chemicals ; these in turn are used for making glass , paper and detergents . " Larry " Syversen , an expert on the frontier West , gave me detailed infor- mation on some of the ...
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... GREEN RIVER FORT BRIDGER RAWLINS ROCKY MOUNTAINS mw FORT LARAMIE LARAMIE CHEYENNE buffalo on a commercial basis for their hides alone , rather than for food or sport.2 ) This book tries to be a brief , factu- ally accurate , informal ...
... GREEN RIVER FORT BRIDGER RAWLINS ROCKY MOUNTAINS mw FORT LARAMIE LARAMIE CHEYENNE buffalo on a commercial basis for their hides alone , rather than for food or sport.2 ) This book tries to be a brief , factu- ally accurate , informal ...
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... River down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains , heading for the Pacific Ocean . It crossed the Green River , called at Fort Bridger and then continued on its way toward the promised lands of the 19th century West- Utah ...
... River down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains , heading for the Pacific Ocean . It crossed the Green River , called at Fort Bridger and then continued on its way toward the promised lands of the 19th century West- Utah ...
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... Green River and which is located on Highway 327 , about 50 miles northeast of Fort Bridger itself . This 22,000 - acre refuge lies in the very heart of a high , wild , lonesome re- gion - an arid , empty landscape of des- olate , flat ...
... Green River and which is located on Highway 327 , about 50 miles northeast of Fort Bridger itself . This 22,000 - acre refuge lies in the very heart of a high , wild , lonesome re- gion - an arid , empty landscape of des- olate , flat ...
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Indians of the Northern Rockies | 23 |
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade | 40 |
Gentiles and Saints The Great Migrations | 57 |
Crossroads of the West | 77 |
Gold Silver and Diamonds | 95 |
Frontier Ways of Life Soldier Cowboy Outlaw Sheepman Buffalo Hunter | 106 |
Gender in Frontier History | 151 |
The Snake Shoshoni Indians Excerpts from Osborne Russells Journal of a Trapper 1914 | 153 |
How to Butcher a Buffalo Captain Howard Stansburys Account 1850 | 155 |
A Western Mining Engineer Henry Janin 18381911 | 157 |
Ballad of the Outlaw Sam Bass | 160 |
Selected Chronology | 163 |
Bibliography | 167 |
Endnotes | 173 |
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Halaman 12 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Halaman 15 - To enterprising young men. The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri river to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years.