Download or read book Vignettes of the Laramie Plains written by Wyoming Author Collection and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Territorial Days on the Laramie Plains written by Laramie Plains Museum and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this volume feature people who came to the Laramie Plains in the nineteenth century. Some came to the frontier before the railroad arrived in 1868, and all faced challenges. Many stayed to see statehood come in 1890, but some did their part and moved on. As a whole, this collection of stories captures the spirit of a Western frontier community.
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 History and Directory of Laramie City written by J. H. Triggs and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laramie written by Charlie Petersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it was still part of Dakota Territory, the town of Laramie was founded in 1868 with the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad. Laramies placement on the high plains at an elevation of 7,200 feet has not made for an easy existence, but the hardy ranching families and cowboys, with their cattle hunkered down against the winds and snow, survived in spite of their harsh surroundings and even thrived in this unique eastern Wyoming town. This is the place where the infamous Jack McCall hid from the authorities, where Teddy Roosevelt rode the range, and where Butch Cassidy was held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison. From its early, rowdy days as an end-of-the-tracks tent town on the railroad, with gambling halls and an active nightlife, through the growing-up years of mills, quarries, and local wartime heroes, to the establishment of Wyomings only state university, Laramies remarkable story is told here through historic photographs.
Download or read book The Geography of the Laramie Plains written by Harding Jones and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Directory of Laramie City Wyoming Territory written by J. H. Triggs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Laramie Plains Line written by Frank R. Hollenback and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Laramie Plains written by Jack Ketchum and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Sioux Indians written by Remi A. Nadeau and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1967 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the white man's impact on the plains Indians, using Fort Laramie, Wyoming as a focal point.
Download or read book Laramie Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway written by Laramie, Hahn's Peak, and Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laramie Plains Museum Reminds Us how Women of Wyoming Made a Difference written by Laramie Plains Museum and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laramie Wyoming written by Laramie Area Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plains of Laramie written by Lauran Paine and published by Sagebrush Large Print. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in 2013 by arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book The Laramie Plains by Jack Ketchum written by Jack Ketchum and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising from the Plains written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
