In 1743 Verendrye reached the western mountains, probably the Big Horn range, and may have reached the North Platte above the site of Fort Laramie.2 Spanish and French contacts with the natives continued, but were never intimate in the ...

Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 9781496205247

Category: History

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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.

See these works for more informa- tion on the military , as opposed to the architectural , aspects of these forts . CHAPTER 1. AN OASIS IN THE DESERT 1. Cited in Hafen and Young , Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West , 1834–1890 ...

Author: Alison K. Hoagland

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 0806136200

Category: History

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By examining the three exemplary Wyoming forts of Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell, the author explains how widely varying architectural designs, rather than standardized plans, were used to construct western American forts.

President Grant closed the forts along the trail because of the 1868 Laramie Treaty and the Union Pacific Railroad ... See LeRoy R. Hafen, Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834–1890 (Glendale ca: Arthur H. Clark, 1938), 17–38, ...

Author: John Gneisenau Neihardt

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 9781496207364

Category: Poetry

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A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience. The new introduction by former Texas poet laureate Alan Birkelbach and annotations by Joe Green present fresh views of Neihardt's iconic work.

The story of Fort Laramie is taken from several sources , mainly Nadeau , Fort Laramie and the Sioux ; Hafen and Young , Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West , 1834-1890 ; and David Lavender , Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier ...

Author: Mike Sajna

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780471417002

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 389

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"A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . .Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makesfor a compelling read as well."-American History "There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the legendary war chief Crazy Horse know when he spokethese words in battle that it was his tale that people would betelling long after his death. Now, author Mike Sajna brings therenowned warrior back to life in this book about his epic struggleto save his culture and homeland amid the westward movement ofwhite settlers. Sajna follows Crazy Horse from his days as a youngboy chasing down wild horses to his later years as "one of thebravest of the brave," and includes new views on his role in theBattle of Little Big Horn and his eventual surrender and murder.Using an extensive collection of historic records, Crazy Horse isone of the most accurate accounts of the great Oglala chief,separating the facts from the many myths that have been passed downby other writers

Part I FORT LARAMIE , 1834 1890 I INTRODUCTION One of the most memorable shrines in Western America is to be found in Eastern ... and evolving military post , Fort Laramie was a classic setting for the colorful pageant of the West .

Author: Merrill J. Mattes

Publisher:

ISBN: UCR:31210024861252

Category: Electronic government information

Page: 440

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Garavaglia, Louis A., and Charles G. Worman, Firearms of the American West: 1803–1865. ... Goetzmann, William H. Army Exploration in the American West, 1803–1863. ... Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834–1890. Lincoln: 1938.

Author: Douglas C. McChristian

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 9780806158600

Category: History

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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.

Hafen , LeRoy R. , and Francis Marion Young 1938 Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West , 1834-1890 . Glen- dale , California , Arthur H. Clark . Hardin , E. E. 1883 Record of Expenditures upon Public Buildings at Fort Lara- mie ...

Author: Danny N. Walker

Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:31951D01752633R

Category: Excavations (Archaeology)

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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West , 1834-1890 . Glendale , Calif .: Arthur H. Clark , 1938 . Hardorff , Richard G. The Oglala Lakota Crazy Horse : A Preliminary Genealogical Study and an Annotated Listing of Primary Sources .

Author: Paul L. Hedren

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 0806130490

Category: History

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Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the U.S. Army in its campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War focuses on a crucial year in the history of the fort, 1876. That was the year of General George Crook’s Big Horn; the Black Hills gold rush; and chaos at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agencies. Paul Hedren draws upon official army records, diaries, and journals to illuminate a fort-based history of the Great Sioux War, and for this edition he also provides a new preface.

Military Forts and Presidios, and Posts Commonly Called Forts, West of the Mississippi River to 1898 Robert Walter Frazer ... Contains some material for Fort Mann , Kansas . ... Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West , 1834-1890 .

Author: Robert Walter Frazer

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 0806112506

Category: History

Page: 308

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The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated. The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boundaries of present states. Pertinent information is included for each fort: date of establishment, location, and reason for establishment; name, rank, and military unit of the person establishing the post; origin of the post name and changes in name and location; present status or date of abandonment; and disposition of any existing military reservation. A map for each state shows the location of the posts discussed. A prime reference for historians, Forts of the West will prove useful to readers of western history as well.

“Anderson's Narrative of a Ride to the Rocky Mountains in 1834,” Historical Reprints No. 27, Sources of Northwest History; LeRoy R. Hafen and Francis M. Young, Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834–1890, pp. 18–38.

Author: Herman Francis Reinhart

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9781477301883

Category: History

Page: 382

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The gold rush was Herman Francis Reinhart's life for almost twenty years. From the summer of 1851 when, as a boy in his late teens, he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming, he was a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West. Reinhart dipped his pan in the streams of northern California and western Oregon—in Humbug Creek, Indian Creek, Rogue River, and Sucker Creek. He made the arduous and dangerous overland journey through Indian-occupied western Washington and British Columbia to find the Fraser River gold even more elusive than that farther south. With his teams and wagons he traversed all of the inland mine areas from Walla Walla to Fort Benton, from Boise Basin to South Pass City. Reinhart's German common sense soon turned him from actual mining to other sources of income, but whatever his labor was, the mines were always the focal point of his activities. When he operated a bakery and saloon it was a business whose customers were miners, whose transactions were more likely to involve gold dust than legal tender, and whose gambling tables saw the exchange of mining fortunes. When he operated a whipsaw mill the timbers cut there were used by miners for sluices and cradles. For a while Reinhart farmed, but planting and harvesting suffered from interruption by frequent expeditions to the mines. And when he prospered as a teamster it was to and from the mining towns that he hauled passengers, supplies, and equipment. The men who, like Herman Francis Reinhart, hopefully followed the golden frontier were not an articulate group, and the written records of their lives are few and fragmentary. But Reinhart, in his later years, recorded his experiences in five long, narrow, hardback ledgers. Many years after he died his daughter gave the ledgers to a friend in Chanute, Kansas—Nora Cunningham—who read the narrative, became fascinated by it, and typed it for publication. Reinhart's account, written in a grammar and language all his own, is not a record of the historian's West, but of the West of the individual miner. The pages are filled with the details of day-to-day life of the miners—the subjects that interested them, the problems that plagued them, their fun and feuding, their frustrations and hopes. Edited by an authority of the history of the West, it is a book that will offer exciting reading to casual readers and scholars alike.