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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... 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 movement , etc ...
... 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 movement , etc ...
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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 91 - Every neck is stretched further, and every eye strained wider. Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves.
Halaman 54 - case of instruments' consisted of a handsaw, a butcher's knife and a large iron bolt. The teeth of the saw being considered too coarse, they went to work, and soon had a set of fine teeth filed on the back. The knife having been whetted keen, and the iron bolt laid upon the fire, they commenced the operation : and in less time than it takes to tell it, the arm was opened round to the bone, which was almost in an instant sawed off; and with the whizzing hot iron the whole stump was so effectually...
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.
Halaman 146 - American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Halaman 31 - They are the most onsartainest varmints in all creation, and I reckon tha'r not mor'n half human ; for you never seed a human, arter you'd fed and treated him to the best fixins in your lodge, jist turn round and steal all your horses, or ary other thing he could lay his hands on.
Halaman 91 - ... nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear— another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm!
Halaman 31 - Bannocks rushed through the crowd, seized the bridle and attempted to drag it from Mr. Bridger by force, without heeding the cocked rifles that surrounded him any more than if they had been so many reeds in the hands of children. He was a brave Indian, but his bravery proved fatal to himself, for the moment he seized the bridle two rifle balls whistled through his body.
Halaman 71 - Gold Mine Found. — In the newly made raceway of the Saw Mill recently erected by Captain Sutter, on the American Fork, gold has been found in considerable quantities. One person brought thirty dollars' worth to New Helvetia, gathered there in a short time. California, no doubt, is rich in mineral wealth, great chances here for scientific capitalists. Gold has been found in almost every part of the country.