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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RY8_the-greeting-and-the-gift_Cheyenne-WY.html
The scene depicts a typical meeting of the Indian and the Mountain Man on the open plains of Wyoming during the time of western discovery and exploration in the early 1800's.
At such meeting the offering of friendship would take place. The Ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGX_yellowstone-highway_Cheyenne-WY.html
This Welcome Center's entrance axis aligns with and pays tribute to the Yellowstone and National Park-to-Park highways. The Yellowstone Highway was an unpaved "auto trail" established in 1915 that was mapped, maintained, and promoted by local busi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGW_trails-tales-of-i-25_Cheyenne-WY.html
Interstate 25 serves as a primary north-south corridor for the western states. Skirting the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, it stretches 1,059 miles from southern New Mexico to northern Wyoming. A vital junction with east-west interstates, it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QGV_magic-city-of-the-plains_Cheyenne-WY.html
Cheyenne was founded in 1867 as a terminal for the Union Pacific's transcontinental railway through southern Wyoming. The city grew bigger and faster than most rail towns, in part due to nearby U.S. Army Fort D.A. Russell, established in 1867, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFI_pole-creek-ranch_Cheyenne-WY.html
was first regular
stop of the Cheyenne
and Black Hills stage
18 miles from Cheyenne
a "hotel" was built in
1876
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFH_camp-carlin_Cheyenne-WY.html
Camp Carlin or Cheyenne Depot, 1867-1890, was 2nd largest quartermaster depot in the United States. In Wyoming it supplied Forts Russell, Sanders, Steele, Bridger, Washakie, Fetterman, Laramie, McKinney and Phil Kearny; in Nebraska, Forts Sidney, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QFG_the-gangplank_Cheyenne-WY.html
The granite rocks to the west are more than a billion years old (Pre-Cambrian in age). The sedimentary rocks to the east are some 10 million years old (Late Miocene in age). After the mountains were elevated, some 20,000 feet of rocks were eroded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QEW_little-bear-stage-station_Cheyenne-WY.html
Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1867-1887, started from Camp Carlin and Ft. D.A. Russell on the west edge of Cheyenne.
This road first ran to Ft. Laramie and in 1876 was extended to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, and the Black Hills gold fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GFB_geology-shaping-history_Pine-Bluffs-WY.html
The region unique geology created ?woodland islands? for planes and animals, and played a key role in the routing of the Transcontinental Railroad
Pine Bluffs
The area distinctive Pine Bluffs are the result of early geologic activity followed by m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ADF_old-texas-trail_Pine-Bluffs-WY.html
Over this trail from distant Texas, passed the greatest migration of men and cattle in the history of America.
In Memoryof the pioneer cattlemen who passed this way on the Old Texas Trail 1866 to 1897. This plaque placed by the Historical Landm…