Fort Laramie National Historic Site
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
Wyoming State Capitol
Building and Grounds
National Historic Landmark
"Big boy"the world's largest steam locomotive No. 4004 built in
1941. Designed especially for use by the union pacific railroad on its rugged
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Wagon wheels cut solid rock, carving a memorial to Empire Builders. What mariner of men and beasts impelled conveyances weighing on those grinding wheels? Look! A line of shadows crossing boundless wilderness. Foremost nimble mules drawing their carts, come poised Mountain Men
carrying trade goods to a fur fair the Rendezvous. So, in 1830, Bill Sublette
turns the first wheels from St.-Louis to the A different breed, no emigrants but enterprisers and adventurers, capture
the 1860's scene. They appear, multi-teamed units in draft -- heavy wagons in
tandem, jerkline operators and bullwhackers delivering freight to Indian War
outposts and agencies. Now the apparition, fades in a changing environment.
Dimly seen, this last commerce serves a new. pastoral society: the era of the
cattle baron and the advent of settlement blot the |
The wayfarer's penchant for inscribing names and dates on prominent landmarks excites the interest of his descendants. Regrettably marks of historic value are often effaced by later opportunists. Along the But not all who registered were worn and grieving emigrants. Early inscriptions were by Mountain Men inured to wilderness life many descendants of two centuries of French Fur Trader. One reads: "1829 This July 14" Does it denote an observance?. If the American Independence Day was celebrated in 1825 at Independence Rock could the French trappers have noted Bastille Day at Register Cliff in 1829? |
Fort
Laramie National Historic Site
Crossroads of a Nation Moving West "An Act to
Facilitate Communication between the
Atlantic and |
Old Bedlam This graceful old structure, built in 1849, is the oldest standing
building in |
This bridge was constructed in 1875. It is believed to be the oldest
existing military bridge west of the Once the then-broad and turbulent North Platte River was spanned, the
Cheyenne to Deadwood Route was considered the best road to the Black Hills
gold fields. The bridge also influenced the establishment of the famous |
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