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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... Trail from 1841 to 1871 ...... 66 ( Oregon Historical Society , negative no . 837 ) The earliest ( 1850 ) photograph of San Francisco ( Bancroft Library , University of California ) Route to Salt Lake City ( Photograph by the author ) ...
... Trail from 1841 to 1871 ...... 66 ( Oregon Historical Society , negative no . 837 ) The earliest ( 1850 ) photograph of San Francisco ( Bancroft Library , University of California ) Route to Salt Lake City ( Photograph by the author ) ...
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... 2 The Wilderness Road and the Louisiana Purchase 13 Westering Trails .60 Treasure Troves of the Frontier 100 Trailing Cattle North 115 Preface i When his trading post flourished at Fort Bridger X List of Illustrations List of Maps.
... 2 The Wilderness Road and the Louisiana Purchase 13 Westering Trails .60 Treasure Troves of the Frontier 100 Trailing Cattle North 115 Preface i When his trading post flourished at Fort Bridger X List of Illustrations List of Maps.
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... Trail ( 1942 ) , an illustrated book for children which I read and reread when I was growing up in San Francisco . Holling tells the story of an ancient cottonwood tree growing near the border between Kansas and Colorado . A full cast ...
... Trail ( 1942 ) , an illustrated book for children which I read and reread when I was growing up in San Francisco . Holling tells the story of an ancient cottonwood tree growing near the border between Kansas and Colorado . A full cast ...
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... Trail ( 1847 ) , Cap- tain Randolph B. Marcy's The Prairie Traveler ( 1859 ) , and Mark Twain's Rough- ing It ( 1872 ) . Two modern anthologies of 19th century writing can be highly rec- ommended as well : Tony Hillerman's The Best of ...
... Trail ( 1847 ) , Cap- tain Randolph B. Marcy's The Prairie Traveler ( 1859 ) , and Mark Twain's Rough- ing It ( 1872 ) . Two modern anthologies of 19th century writing can be highly rec- ommended as well : Tony Hillerman's The Best of ...
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... Trail , on horseback or plodding on foot alongside a covered wagon drawn by a team of oxen , and to cross the Continental Di- vide at South Pass , 7,550 feet high ! From South Pass , the Oregon Trail followed the Big Sandy River down ...
... Trail , on horseback or plodding on foot alongside a covered wagon drawn by a team of oxen , and to cross the Continental Di- vide at South Pass , 7,550 feet high ! From South Pass , the Oregon Trail followed the Big Sandy River down ...
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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.