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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q7A_ranching-in-wyoming_Casper-WY.html
From Wyoming's very beginnings and with the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, the livestock industry was anticipated to secure a viable ecumenic base for the new territory. Most of the territory consisted of rangeland where buffal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q79_goose-egg-ranch_Casper-WY.html
The Goose Egg Ranch first received some notoriety when Owen Wister featured it in his book, The Virginian. In the novel, this is where the cowboys exchanged the babies' blankets, and after the dance, the mothers carried home the wrong children. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q78_pony-express_Casper-WY.html
Today you stand where the Pony Express ran in 1860-61, when daring riders on swift horses carried the mail between St. Joe, MO and Sacramento, CA.
A January 30, 1860 news release read: "Have determined to establish a Pony Express to Sacra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q77_richard-bridge-and-military-complex_Casper-WY.html
The military camps and Richard Bridge were located in the bend of the North Platte River about one-mile north of Evansville, Wyoming. Locally known as Reshaw's Bridge, the area is marked by a historical sign.
John Richard (Reshaw) constructed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q76_bridger-and-bozeman-trails_Casper-WY.html
The discovery of gold in Montana in 1862 created a rush of miners traveling to Virginia city. The most direct routes were through Wyoming on the Bridger and Bozeman trails. In the spring of 1863, John Bozeman, a miner from Georgia, pioneered a rou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q75_salt-creek-oil-field_Casper-WY.html
The famous Salt Creek oil field is located in Natrona County, 40 miles north of Casper. Representative Stephen W. Downey was the first man to acquire land at Salt Creek in 1883, after the discovery of the Jackass Spring oil seep. The discovery oil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q53_indians-of-wyoming_Casper-WY.html
At the time of the great migration of emigrants through Wyoming to the Pacific coast and Utah, Indians were the largest group of residents in Wyoming. Many of these tribes such as Utes and Blackfeet, were semi-permanent and nomadic, traveling in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q52_robert-stuart-cabin-site_Casper-WY.html
Approximately eight miles southwest of here, Robert Stuart built the first cabin in the state of Wyoming. The cabin was built in a three day period in early November,1812, at a site on the North Platte River at Bessemer Bend.
Robert Stuart was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q51_the-mormons_Casper-WY.html
Brigham Young led the first group of Mormons west from winter quarters in Nebraska in 1847, finally settling in the Salt Lake Valley. When these pioneers crossed the river here, they left nine men to operate a ferry. This ferry served fellow Mormo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q50_military-explorers_Casper-WY.html
John C. Fremont, the "Pathfinder", was born in 1813 and explored a large portion of central Wyoming including the Casper area. He made an independent survey to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming in 1842, and the 13,743' Fremont Peak of …