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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQP_between-two-worlds-the-american-metis_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
"French, Spanish and Indian and mixed are very common here and all languages are being jabbered in promiscuous interchange."Charles B. Darwin, Fort Laramie,June 28, 1849Métis (ma-tes') - of mixed race, particularly, mixed Native American a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQO_reading-riting-and-rithmetic_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
I knew little about reading, spelling and arithmetic, while I was well versed in lightning, thunder, vapor and geography.      Guy V. Henry Jr. on growing up at frontier military postsWyoming's first public school opened at Fort Laramie in 1852…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQM_the-queens-of-soap-suds-row_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
With reddened knuckles and rolled up sleeves, an obscure corps served the 19th century army. Beginning in 1802, the army enlisted women aged 13 and older to wash soldiers' laundry. Laundresses received a wage, quarters, fuel, rations, and medical …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQK_general-sink-latrine_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
In the 1880's the Surgeon General determined that the privy vault - - "That most objectionable and dangerous nuisance" - - was a threat to the soldier's health. His concern had been prompted by the accumulated reports from disgusted post…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQJ_the-new-guardhouse-and-adjacent-barracks_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The "new" guardhouse, built in 1876 and shown in this 1887 view, was the last and most comfortable of three such structures at Fort Laramie. It was constructed upon the ruins of the original guardhouse, built in 1849-1850. The "new&…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQG_guardhouse_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The remains of the first guardhouse constructed in 1850, at Fort Laramie were discovered by workmen in 1960 during restoration of the "new" guardhouse. This site is a good example of the structural changes that occurred during the forts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQF_parade-ground_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The parade ground was the center around which a variety of utilitarian buildings were constructed between 1849 and 1885.Though intended as a center of activities for the post with its parades and drills, Fort Laramie's parade ground was not in con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQE_military-justice-punishment-harsh-and-certain_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
As long as you behaved yourself and performed your duty as a soldier, you got along alright.Sergeant Perley S. Eaton, 3rd CavalryFew soldiers completed their enlistments without experiencing the military justice system. Minor infractions resulted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQD_administration-building_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
The large structure built on this site in 1885 - pictured shortly after completion - was put to many uses.The section on the far right was used as a schoolroom for officers' children. The central portion housed the Headquarters offices. The left p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MQA_crossroads-of-a-nation-moving-west_Fort-Laramie-WY.html
Crossed the Laramie ford this morning and passed through the fort registering our names and found that . . . 16,913 men, Women 235, Children 242, Wagons 4,672, Horses 14,974, Mules, 4,641, Oxen 7,427, Cows 465, passed, besides nearly as many more…
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