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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q49_the-mormon-ferry_Casper-WY.html
"....A Company have gone back about three miles to make two canoes on which they intend to build a boat to be used here till the next company comes up. Another company also went about half a mile up the river to make slabs or puncheons to lay on t…
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Lt. Caspar Collins was killed July 26, 1865 about three miles from this spot. His body was removed by relatives to his old home in Hillsboro, Ohio. Bodies of soldiers killed from 1858 to 1867 were reburied at Fort D. A. Russell in 1899. Some stil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q40_site-of-fort-casper_Casper-WY.html
U.S. Military Post
On the Oregon
Trail
Established 1858
Rebuilt 1865
Enlarged 1866
Troops Withdrawn 1867
Burned by Indians 1867
Restored by City of Casper
1936
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3S_old-fort-caspar_Casper-WY.html
Originally known to trappers and explorers (1830-1847) as Upper Crossing of the North Platte River, it became the Mormon Ferry in 1847. Guinard built a bridge here in 1858, and troops from Platte Bridge Station guarded the telegraph line and prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3R_platte-bridge-cemetery_Casper-WY.html
You may be surprised that no one is buried under these stone markers. They represent some of the soldiers who died while stationed at Platte Bridge Station (Fort Caspar). The army removed the bodies originally located here and reinterred them at F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3Q_the-pony-express_Casper-WY.html
Here was the bustling Platte Bridge Station (later renamed Fort Caspar) with a relay station for the Pony Express. The bridge was a catalyst drawing together wilderness wayfarers — frontiersmen and immigrants — to learn late news of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3N_oregon-trail-1847_Casper-WY.html
Marked by the
State of Wyoming
1914
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3M_mormon-pioneer-trail_Casper-WY.html
1336 miles - Nauvoo, Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley
(Diagram of the Mormon Pioneer Trail)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O6A_mama-sage_Casper-WY.html
It is not coincidence that Wyoming supports over two-thirds of the world's population of pronghorn antelope and sage grouse. The only vast expanses of sagebrush-grassland habitat left on the North American continent are found in Wyoming, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MOX_bridger-road-waltman-crossing_Casper-WY.html
Here the present-day highway crosses what remains of an all but forgotten road. That road led to the remote goldfields of western Montana, booming since 1862. The government, in 1859, ordered Captain W.F. Raynolds, Topographical …