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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDY_alah-h-unthank_Glenrock-WY.html
Nineteen-year-old Alvah Unthank was one of a group of young men who left Newport, Wayne County, Indiana, for the goldfields of California in 1850. On June 23 the wagon train passed Register Cliff, south of Guernsey. There Alvah inscribed his name:…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDW_ada-magill_Glenrock-WY.html
Caleb and Nancy Magill with their six children were part of a wagon train traveling fro Brown County, Kansas, to Dallas, Oregon, in 1864. After leaving Fort Laramie their three-year-old daughter Ada was taken sick with dysentery. At Deer Creek Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDV_rock-in-the-glen_Glenrock-WY.html
On July 26, 1842 John C. Fremont's first expedition to the far west guided by Kit Carson with Joseph Bissonette as interpreter, also L. Maxwell as hunter, camped in this rocky glen.
Names and dates of many of the 300,000 travelers of the Orego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDU_deer-creek-station_Glenrock-WY.html
Deer Creek Station, which once stood on the site of present- day Glenrock near the confluence of Deer Creek and the North Platte River, became a familiar landmark along the Oregon-California-Mormon Trail between 1857 and 1866.
The station began…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDT_ferdinand-v-hayden_Douglas-WY.html
To All Pioneers
Who passed this way
and
in memory of
Pioneer Geologist
Ferdinand V. Hayden
Chief U.S. Geological Survey
of the Territories
1867-78
Born at Westfield, Mass, 1829
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O6P_cottonwoods-homes-along-the-prairie-river_Douglas-WY.html
Take a good look at those big old trees down along the river. You know, the ones with the big limbs and huge trunks. Those old cottonwoods are special trees. They have grown tall with their roots spreading as grand as their limbs. Their roots reac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPV_the-one-mile-hog-ranch_Douglas-WY.html
Also known as the Hog Ranch at Fetterman, the One Mile Hog Ranch was perhaps the rowdiest, roughest and most dangerous red light establishment in Wyoming. Built by Harrison Kane in 1880, the saloon sat just across the Platte River, about one mile …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IOH_hog-ranch_Douglas-WY.html
Above is an artist's conception of the interior of the Fort Fetterman version of a "Hog Ranch," a common frontier term used to describe certain off-post facilities which catered to the lonely soldier's desire for wine, women and song. A …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IOF_fort-fetterman_Douglas-WY.html
This plateau above LaPrele Creek and the North Platte River was chosen as an Army post by Major Dye who described it as "...being neither so low as to be seriously affected by the rains or snow; nor so high and unprotected as to suffer from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IO1_james-bridgers-ferry_Douglas-WY.html
James Bridger's Ferry,
established in 1864, was
located 1500 feet up the
river from this monument.