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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QTP_connor-battlefield-state-historic-site_Ranchester-WY.html
In 1865 General Patrick E. Connor led the "Powder River Expedition" into this area. This expedition was a part of a broad military program to bring the Indians north of the Platte River under control and halt their depredations along the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PXR_the-black-diamonds-of-sheridan-county_Sheridan-WY.html
What Began with "Wagon Mines" ...
Ranches in Sheridan County accessed outcrops of coal with pick and shovel as early as 1880. Known as "wagon mines" because people loaded the coal directly into wagons, these mines served the local population…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PXH_the-black-diamond-trail_Sheridan-WY.html
Stretching north from Sheridan for about 15 miles, the Black Diamond Trail highlights Sheridan County mining districts that were integral to the settlement and development of the city and county of Sheridan. Although the peak of activity was the 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PXG_the-pipe-of-peace_Sheridan-WY.html
The warfare and enmity which existed for generations between the
Cheyenne and Absaroka Nations
was solemnly terminated here on July 20 1932 when the chiefs of both Nations smoked the Pipe of Peace and took each others hands in friendship.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX9_bozeman-trail-blacksmith-shop_Sheridan-WY.html
Near here emigrants traversed the Bozeman Trail, 1864-68 to Virginia City, Montana gold mines. Confronted with hostile Indians unwilling to share their hunting grounds, the trail became known as the "Bloody Bozeman" and was discontinued.
Cross…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX8_bozeman-trail_Sheridan-WY.html
Marked by the
State of Wyoming
1914
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX7_community-service-routes_Sheridan-WY.html
During the 1880s, as Sheridan County was settled and railroads steadily advanced through Wyoming, stagecoach operations changed from long-distance interstate service between railheads to a network of shorter routes connecting rail terminal and iso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX3_rock-creek-to-montana-stage-line_Sheridan-WY.html
Beginning in July 1878 the U.S. Postal Service awarded contracts to stage lines to operated mail and passenger service on start route 37110 between Rock Creek, on the Union Pacific Railroad in southeastern Wyoming, and Northern Pacific Railroad co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX2_pass-wyoming_Parkman-WY.html
Pass Post Office was established alongside the stage road in 1888 by Thurston W. Akins on his homestead on Twin Creek, five and a half miles northwest of Ohlman and three quarters of a mile south of the Wyoming-Montana line. The post office served…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWP_big-horn-blacksmith-shop_Sheridan-WY.html
Big Horn grew up as one of the main communities along the stage route in Sheridan County. The first Big Horn Post Office was established in 1879 at Thomas Creighton's ranch two miles northeast of Big Horn. In 1881, Creighton sold his ranch, and th…