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Book History of Fort Laramie

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. G. Coutant
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781536945928
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book History of Fort Laramie written by C. G. Coutant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Fort Laramie is an overview of the famous fort in Wyoming written by noted Wyoming historian C.G. Coutant. First published in 1899, this edition includes the original illustrations.

Book Fort Laramie

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  • Author : Starley Talbott
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780738580531
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Starley Talbott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Laramie was one of the most important frontier outposts of the American West. Founded as the trading post Fort William in 1834, the fort became a U.S. military post in 1849. Beginning in 1841, emigrants stopped at Fort Laramie while traveling the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. Fort Laramie served as gathering place for thousands of Native Americans and hosted the 1851 and 1868 treaty councils. When the treaties failed, the post became the staging area for campaigns that eventually led to the tribes's confinement on reservations. Fort Laramie was abandoned by the military in 1890; the buildings were auctioned and served private interests during the homestead period from 1890 to 1937. Fort Laramie was acquired by the state of Wyoming in 1937, and the fort became a unit of the National Park System in 1938. Fort Laramie National Historic Site is open daily except New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The restoration of many structures to their historical appearance provides visitors with a glimpse of the past. Starley Talbott is a Wyoming native, freelance writer, and former newspaper reporter. This is her second book in the Images of America series. Photographs in this book are from the Fort Laramie National Historic Site, state and national archives, and the author. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.

Book Fort Laramie Park History  1834 1977

Download or read book Fort Laramie Park History 1834 1977 written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West  1834 1890

Download or read book Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West 1834 1890 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the American Fur Company and patronized by trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. Then it was a vital supply center and rest stop for a tide of emigrants--missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, and homeseekers. As more wagons rolled west and the Pony Express came through, the need for protection increased; in 1849, Fort Laramie was converted from a trapper's post into a military fort. Down through the years there were skirmishes with the Plains Indians, who sometimes came to the fort to barter and to treat. The peace council of 1851--one of the largest gatherings of tribes ever seen in the Old West--is here described in fascinating detail. The cast of characters in this great historical pageant reads like a who's who of the American West.

Book Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier

Download or read book Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier written by David Lavender and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and illustrates the history of Fort Laramie between 1834 and 1890 and its importance as a trade center and military post. Also contains a concise bibliographic essay.

Book The Establishment and Early History of Fort Laramie  Wyoming

Download or read book The Establishment and Early History of Fort Laramie Wyoming written by Francis Wager Smith and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Laramie National Monument  Wyoming  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Fort Laramie National Monument Wyoming Classic Reprint written by David L. Hieb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming Fort William, the first Fort Laramie, in 183 7. From a painting by A. J. Miller. Courtesy Mrs. Clyde Porter.the gradual westward movement of the beaver hunters, some of them undoubtedly of Canadian origin. Among them was Jacques La Ramee who, according to tradition, was killed by Indians in 1821 on the stream which now bears his name and which was destined to become the setting of Fort Laramie. Famous only in death, his name was to be given also to a plains region, a peak, a mountain range, a town, a city, and a county in Wyoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Fort Laramie National Monument  Wyoming  1942  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Fort Laramie National Monument Wyoming 1942 Classic Reprint written by United States Department Of Th Interior and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming, 1942 With the establishment by Jim Bridger, the best known of the mountain men, in 1843 of the famous fort in southwestern Wyoming which is called by his name, the trading activities of Fort Laramie were given greater scope. Bridger conducted much of his trade through Fort Laramie, sending sea shells and other articles procured in California to the post, in addition to beaver pelts and deer skins. After 1845 the enormous increase in overland emigration and travel to the Pacific coast brought a new source of profit in the supplies sold to emi grants who made Fort Laramie their first stop for rest and provisioning. After that year, fur-trading activities became relatively much less important, and with the sale of the post to the United States Government in 1849 its day as a center of the fur trade passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Fort Laramie in 1876

Download or read book Fort Laramie in 1876 written by Paul L. Hedren and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book focuses on the history of Fort Laramie and the role it played during the Great Sioux War.

Book Fort Laramie

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  • Author : Douglas C. McChristian
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2017-03-13
  • ISBN : 080615859X
  • Pages : 563 pages

Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Douglas C. McChristian and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events. Emphasizing the fort's military history, McChristian documents the army's vital role in ending challenges posed by American Indians to U.S. occupation and settlement of the region, and he expands on the fort's interactions with the many Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains. He provides a particularly lucid description of the infamous Grattan fight of 1854, which initiated a generation of strife between Indians and U.S. soldiers, and he recounts the 1851 Horse Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American West's most venerable historic places.

Book From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee

Download or read book From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee written by Charles W. Allen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942) took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. He was at the Red Cloud Agency when Red Cloud attempted to prevent the raising of the American flag and the Lakota nearly took over the agency. Allen also visited Deadwood at the height of the Black Hills gold rush, helped build the first government agency on the Pine Ridge reservation, and reported on the Lakota Ghost Dance. Allen happened to be walking through the Indian camp at Wounded Knee when shots rang out on December 29, 1890, and his is arguably the best of all the eyewitness accounts of that tragedy. ø This is Allen's previously unpublished vivid account of the years he described as "the most exciting chapter of my life." As much the chronicle of the passing of an era as a personal narrative, its simple, direct, and often moving prose captures the injustices, gritty details, and relentless energy of a period of dramatic change in the West.

Book A History of Fort Laramie National Monument

Download or read book A History of Fort Laramie National Monument written by Byron J. Grater and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Days in Wyoming

Download or read book Early Days in Wyoming written by John Hunton (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Laramie and the U  S  Army on the High Plains 1849   1890

Download or read book Fort Laramie and the U S Army on the High Plains 1849 1890 written by Douglas C. McChristian and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Fort Laramie comes alive in this very detailed history of Fort Laramie produced by the National Park Service. From its early days when it was known as Ft. William and then Ft. John and used by fur trappers to its acquisition by the United States military to protect the trails and communication routes used by pioneers and commerce. Chapters detail the Indian relations, diplomacy and treaties promulgated at the fort. This is a great source document for study of the region and time and includes very thorough footnotes and a complete bibliography.