Fort Bridger Wyoming

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786429127
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Bridger, Wyoming written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Spurrier Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a Brief History written by Robert Spurrier Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Spurrier Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Bridger, Wyoming written by Robert Spurrier Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ephriam D. Dickson III
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439646791
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Bridger written by Ephriam D. Dickson III and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Fort Bridger represents a microcosm of the development of the American West. Situated in an area initially inhabited by the Shoshone people, Fort Bridger was established during a transitional phase between the fur-trade era and the period of western migration. The fort became one of the most important supply points along the nations western trail network. Later, the post served as a bastion of civilization as one of a number of western military posts. Soldiers at the fort protected not only the lives and property of its local citizenry but also the emerging transportation and communication advancements of a nation. Following the Armys departure, a small settlement emerged at Fort Bridger, using buildings and materials from the old military garrison. Today, the fort and town remain active, in part as a respite for travelers just as it had been more than 150 years ago.

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786450374
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Bridger, Wyoming written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342486
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Wyoming written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, on the fiftieth anniversary of the state, the WPA Guide to Wyoming is a thorough reflection of both the history of the state’s pioneer routes as well an attempt to capture the beauty of the surrounding area in photographs. Descriptions of the Equality State’s livestock and oil industries are included as well as pictorial documentation of the area’s vast expanses of open land.

Author : James A. Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridger Trail written by James A. Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annals of Wyoming written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Board of Arbitrators for the Purpose of Appraising the Valuation of Certain Buildings on the Military Reservation of Fort Bridger, Wyo
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Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book Buildings on Fort Bridger Military Reservation written by United States. Board of Arbitrators for the Purpose of Appraising the Valuation of Certain Buildings on the Military Reservation of Fort Bridger, Wyo and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Enzler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169796
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim Bridger written by Jerry Enzler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.