Facts and Fantasy of Uinta County's Past

Edité par Melba Amster et al, Evanston, Wyoming, 1987

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Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], comb-bound with red pictorial covers, pp. 49, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, drawings, maps &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The Oregon Trail originally traversed the Black's Fork Valley before heading north toward Fort Hall, Idaho. In 1843, fur trapper Jim Bridger set up a trading post on the Black's Fork River to serve travelers on the Oregon Trail and later the Mormon, California, Cherokee Trails. At Bridger’s Fort, travelers could trade their weakened animals for rested ones and obtain needed food and other supplies. In 1855, Bridger and his partner, Louis Vasquez, sold Bridger's Fort to the Mormons who were operating Fort Supply a few miles to the south to serve emigrants on the Mormon Trail. In 1857, Mormon militia burned Bridger’s Fort to prevent its capture by the U.S. Army in the so-called Utah War. In 1858, the Army took possession of the post and renamed it Fort Bridger. The fort remained an army post until 1890 when it was abandoned. By the early 1860s, conflicts between emigrants on the Oregon-Mormon-California Trails and native tribes led the government to establish a new trail through Colorado and Wyoming known as the Overland Trail. The Overland Trail, which had been mapped by Howard Stansbury of the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1851, ran through southern Wyoming. Ben Holladay, who carried the U.S. mail on his Overland Stage Company, began using this route in July 1861. The western portion of the Overland Trail through Wyoming passed through Fort Bridger. In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad entered Uinta County along the route of the Overland Trail, laying tracks that passed a few miles north of Fort Bridger, then south, crossing the Aspen Hill summit before turning north along the Bear River. In exceptionally good condition.…

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Titre
Facts and Fantasy of Uinta County's Past
Auteur
Amsler, Melba, Jean Cook, Mary Emerson, Dorothy Proffit and Denice Wheeler
Éditeur
Melba Amster et al, Evanston, Wyoming
Année de publication
1987
Jaquette
No Dust Jacket
Reliure
Comb-bound
Édition
First Impression.
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