Guernsey State Park
Search results
Fort Laramie (/ ˈ l ær ə m i /; founded as Fort William and known for a while as Fort John) was a significant 19th-century trading post, diplomatic site, and military installation located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte Rivers.
Sep 24, 2022 · Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890.
May 3, 2023 · Give yourself a minimum of two hours to explore the site and the history of Fort Laramie. Start your tour at the visitor center located in the restored 1884 Commissary Storehouse where you can view an 18-minute orientation film, tour our museum and browse in our award winning bookstore.
Nov 8, 2014 · Fort Laramie is best known for the years from 1849 to 1890, when it served as a military post in the western Indian Wars. Earlier fur-trade, robe-trade and emigrant-supply forts that existed on the same site from 1834 to 1849 are less known and understood.
Mar 28, 2023 · Fort Laramie: Crossroads of a Nation Moving West. Located at confluence of the Laramie and North Platte Rivers in southeast Wyoming, this famed outpost - first as a fur trade post and then as a military garrison played a strategic role in transforming the United States.
Fort Laramie National Historic Site preserves and interprets one of America’s most important locations in the history of westward expansion — hosting emigrants from the Oregon, Mormon and California trails — and Native American resistance.
May 4, 2021 · Even though Fort Laramie was the only outpost along the 750 miles between Fort Kearney in the Nebraska Territory and Salt Lake City in the Utah Territory, the numbers that stopped at the fort are boggling. If you're searching for the door that opened Westward Expansion, find yourself at Fort Laramie.
Jun 12, 2006 · Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West. The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government. by HistoryNet Staff 6/12/2006.
Nov 13, 2023 · This unique historic place preserves and interprets one of America's most important locations in the history of westward expansion and Indian resistance. In 1834, where the Cheyenne and Arapaho travelled, traded and hunted, a fur trading post was created.
Aug 7, 2017 · Fort Laramie National Historic Site, a unit of the National Park System, is located off State Highway 160 in Southeast WY. Click for the National Register of Historic Places file: text and photos. Fort Laramie’s Museum and Visitor Center are open daily from 8:00am to 4:30pm, except on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
