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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... lands of the 19th century West- Utah , California or Oregon . Southwestern Wyoming is one of the best places in the United States today to come to grips with the frontier West . In the language of the Delaware Indians , Mecheweami - ing ...
... lands of the 19th century West- Utah , California or Oregon . Southwestern Wyoming is one of the best places in the United States today to come to grips with the frontier West . In the language of the Delaware Indians , Mecheweami - ing ...
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... Lands Hills and the snow - cov- ered peaks of the Wind River Moun- tains . This is in big - sky country , without any of the familiar landmarks which in other parts of the United States give the viewer a sense of scale . There are , for ...
... Lands Hills and the snow - cov- ered peaks of the Wind River Moun- tains . This is in big - sky country , without any of the familiar landmarks which in other parts of the United States give the viewer a sense of scale . There are , for ...
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... land is still virtually deserted . Because it is high ( the average elevation is about 6,300 feet ) , it is cold much of the year . Summers are warm , dry and dusty . Except for a handful of cattle ranchers , trona miners and employees ...
... land is still virtually deserted . Because it is high ( the average elevation is about 6,300 feet ) , it is cold much of the year . Summers are warm , dry and dusty . Except for a handful of cattle ranchers , trona miners and employees ...
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... land came to an end . In 1811 a group of American trap- pers representing John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company penetrated the Green River basin in search of beaver . One of these men , Donald Mackenzie , later joined the British ...
... land came to an end . In 1811 a group of American trap- pers representing John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company penetrated the Green River basin in search of beaver . One of these men , Donald Mackenzie , later joined the British ...
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... Land- mark Commission of Wyoming and in 1933 it was dedicated as a Wyoming His- torical Landmark and Museum . Now ... lands which lay , as the 19th century ballad " Shenandoah " puts it , " across the wide Missouri . " The history of the ...
... Land- mark Commission of Wyoming and in 1933 it was dedicated as a Wyoming His- torical Landmark and Museum . Now ... lands which lay , as the 19th century ballad " Shenandoah " puts it , " across the wide Missouri . " The history of the ...
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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.