Download or read book Fort Laramie 1849 1869 written by Lodisa Cornelia Watson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Starley Talbott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort 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 a 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 tribess 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 Years Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The restoration of many structures to their historical appearance provides visitors with a glimpse of the past.
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.
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 2013-04-27 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Two of a Historic Resources Study for Fort Laramie National Historic Site. This covers Fort Laramie as a United States military post.
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.
Download or read book Fort Laramie The Capitol of the West 1849 1890 written by Delbert L. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis covers the entire span of years Fort Laramie was operational. The paper follows the events that shaped the fort's history on a decade by decade basis, what Professor Raymond Fogleson "calls short histories of continuum." By using decades to form a timeline, the reader can follow the fort's rise from an isolated trading post to the hub of western expansion. Within Fort Laramie's historical narrative there are any number of major events that could be classified as peripheral history. In most cases those events involve the fort's military past but have little to do with the main theme of this thesis: the army's endeavors to establish and maintain a fort on the western frontier, and the continuing struggle on the part of the garrison, and their dependents, to scratch out an existence in an isolated and dangerous environment.
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:
Download or read book Fort Laramie National Historic Site written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Laramie to Fort Leavenworth Via Republican River in 1849 written by Langdon Cheves Easton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Laramie National Monument Wyoming written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Charles W. Maynard and published by PowerKids Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of Fort Laramie, its various uses over the years, and its importance thoughout history.
Download or read book Fort Laramie National Historic Site written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Charles W. Maynard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Download or read book Fort Laramie National Historic Site Interpretive Prospectus General Management Plan GMP Development Concept Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
