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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... United States.3 It has over 400,000 vol- umes on Western Americana and Latin Americana , 90 percent of which deal with the American West . It also has 32,000 linear feet of manuscripts ; 2.3 million photographs and other pictorial ...
... United States.3 It has over 400,000 vol- umes on Western Americana and Latin Americana , 90 percent of which deal with the American West . It also has 32,000 linear feet of manuscripts ; 2.3 million photographs and other pictorial ...
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... United States today to come to grips with the frontier West . In the language of the Delaware Indians , Mecheweami - ing meant " at the big plains " or " on the great plain . " This is the origin of our own word " Wyoming " and is still ...
... United States today to come to grips with the frontier West . In the language of the Delaware Indians , Mecheweami - ing meant " at the big plains " or " on the great plain . " This is the origin of our own word " Wyoming " and is still ...
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... United States give the viewer a sense of scale . There are , for ex- ample , hardly any trees here . The few cottonwoods and the willow thickets marking the course of the shallow , fast- flowing Green River are stunted and offer no ...
... United States give the viewer a sense of scale . There are , for ex- ample , hardly any trees here . The few cottonwoods and the willow thickets marking the course of the shallow , fast- flowing Green River are stunted and offer no ...
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... United States ] had a frontier of settlement , but at present the unsettled area has been so broken up by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line . In the discussion of its extent , its westward ...
... United States ] had a frontier of settlement , but at present the unsettled area has been so broken up by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line . In the discussion of its extent , its westward ...
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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.
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