Oregon Trail
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By wagon, encampments in the Guernsey area, are a day's trek from Fort Laramie. Emigrants had three choices of camp sites in the Guernsey area: Register Cliff, Warm Springs or Cold Springs, the farthest encampment.
Lieutenant John C. Fremont's Camp Site…
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The U.S. Army's Role in Protecting the Oregon Trail in Wyoming 1842 to 1870
Lieutenant John C. Fremont led an expedition west in 1842 to map a route to Oregon Territory. The scout, Kit Carson, guided the expedition. Lieutenant Fremont's report and…
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Two plaque, under the same name, described military forts and stations on the Wyoming's Platte River section of the Oregon Trail.
Panel 1:
There were four forts, numerous stations, and camps along the Oregon-California-Mormon Trails in Wyoming duri…
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Three panels are found at the Park Kiosk near the parking lot.
The Trail West
During the mid-1800s, more than 500,000 pioneers journeyed west. Never more than a rocky, rutted trail, the road west began in Missouri, crossing the plains before ent…
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Marked bythe State ofNebraska1912Trail30 feet east
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Marked bythe State ofNebraska1912Windlass Hillentrance toAsh Hollow
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Marked bythe State ofNebraska1912Trail passed37 feet northof this Point.MitchellPass
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Marked bythe State ofNebraska1912Chimney RockS 56ยบ 56' W. 9041 Ft.
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Cold Spring campingground. Rifle pits onbrow of hill 500 feetnorth.Erected by the Historical LandmarkCommission of Wyoming1943
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This site of the Lombard Ferry was one of the most used crossings on the Green River, lasting from about 1843 into the early 1900s. First established by mountain men, it was operated by Mormons in the 1850s during the peak years of the westward emigration. …