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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... range , to about 1890 , when the In- dian Wars were over and the U.S. Army closed Fort Bridger for the last time . Chapter IX tries to clear up some common misperceptions about the shot- guns , rifles , pistols and knives used on the ...
... range , to about 1890 , when the In- dian Wars were over and the U.S. Army closed Fort Bridger for the last time . Chapter IX tries to clear up some common misperceptions about the shot- guns , rifles , pistols and knives used on the ...
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... range of contemporary illustra- tions and photographs in the 26 volumes of Time - Life's outstanding series The Old West . If these books are not avail- able , then Time - Life's one - volume dis- tillation of the series , also entitled ...
... range of contemporary illustra- tions and photographs in the 26 volumes of Time - Life's outstanding series The Old West . If these books are not avail- able , then Time - Life's one - volume dis- tillation of the series , also entitled ...
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... range was overstocked and in poor condition ; there was a drought ; beef prices were low ; and the terrible winter of 1886-1887 killed about half of the big herds of cattle pas- tured. I- Looking for the Frontier West 11.
... range was overstocked and in poor condition ; there was a drought ; beef prices were low ; and the terrible winter of 1886-1887 killed about half of the big herds of cattle pas- tured. I- Looking for the Frontier West 11.
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... range . The combina- tion of these factors , together with the growing availability of a new , cheap form of fencing ( barbed wire ) spelled the end of open range grazing and of the open range itself . The cattlemen's and sheepmen's ...
... range . The combina- tion of these factors , together with the growing availability of a new , cheap form of fencing ( barbed wire ) spelled the end of open range grazing and of the open range itself . The cattlemen's and sheepmen's ...
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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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