Frontier Travel

Win a Trip to a National Park

August 8, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 8, 2011) – National Park Foundation and ARAMARK Parks and Destinations are closing out the summer with a “National Park Adventure Sweepstakes” with one giveaway each week now through Labor Day. Individuals can win a trip to some of our country’s most spectacular parks from the East Coast to the Last Frontier. [...]

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Ft. Union, New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Trail

December 8, 2008

Fort Union was established in 1851 as the guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. During it’s forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest. The largest visible network [...]

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Little Big Horn Battlefield

December 2, 2008

In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. They chose to continue their traditional nomadic way of life. The campaign was initiated when a Government ultimatum to [...]

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On Wyoming’s Frontier . . . Ft. Caspar

November 26, 2008

Although we were in a hurry to get up the road to the Little Big Horn Battlefield, the Frontier Travelers couldn’t resist stopping in Casper, Wyoming to visit Platte Bridge Station, later renamed Fort Caspar. (yes, the town is CaspEr, the fort CaspAr) Wagon at Fort Caspar WyomingWe arrived at Fort Caspar in early May, [...]

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Visit Fort Caspar Wyoming

November 15, 2008

Fort Caspar Museum is located at 4001 Fort Caspar Road Casper, Wyoming 82604 Hours of Operationg May & September Monday – Saturday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Fort buildings open 30 minutes later and close 30 minutes earlier than the museum building.

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Ft. Union, North Dakota

November 12, 2008

Fort Union Trading Post was the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri from 1828 to 1867. At this post, the Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibway, Blackfeet, Hidatsa, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth. Fort Union Trading Post was [...]

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A Month of Lincoln

October 29, 2008

“The story of Abraham Lincoln and his immediate family begins and ends with a tragedy.” – Louis A. Warren In referring to his grandfather in a letter to Jesse Lincoln in 1854, Lincoln wrote that “the story of his death by the Indians, and of Uncle Mordecai, then fourteen years old, killing one of the [...]

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An Oregon Trail Traveler at Fort Hall

September 29, 2008

On August 19, 1852, Oregon Trail traveler Parthenia Blank wrote “Today came to Fort Hall on Snake River and passed it at one in the afternoon. It is made of unburnt bricks and is little larger than a good sized barn. It is not now occupied by the soldiers, but is used for a trading [...]

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The American Frontier circa 1796

September 27, 2008

In 1796-1797, an English adventurer named Francis Baily braved the wilds of North America–a journey chronicled in Baily’s Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797 (Travels on the Western Waters). Having traveled from England to America, via the West Indies, Baily then traveled from Washington across the Allegheny [...]

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