Wyoming

Another Disastrous December – the Fetterman Massacre

December 21, 2011

December 21 marks the 145th anniversary of the Fetterman Massacre, which took place near Fort Phil Kearny, in present-day Wyoming. Fort Kearny was built along the Bozeman Trail, although the establishment of a fort here was never agreed to by Red Cloud at the 1866 council at Fort Laramie. The fort’s commanding officer was Colonel [...]

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Dull Knife Battle – 135th Anniversary

November 27, 2011

On November 25, 1876, Colonel Ranald MacKenzie, in command of the Fourth Cavalry, led troops of about 1100 men into the east end of Red Fork Valley for the purpose of destroying the Dull Knife band of Northern Cheyenne.  The Red Fork of the Powder River was a favored winter camping spot for the Cheyenne, [...]

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Wyoming Pioneer Gets Confederate Gravestone

September 9, 2010

“John C. Hunton’s meticulous diaries that detail Wyoming life in the late 1800s and early 1900s have long been cherished by the state’s historians. Hunton was a soldier, prisoner of war, musician, freighter, sutler at Fort Laramie, roadhouse host, journalist, cattleman, community leader, weatherman and businessman. Before he left Virginia to come west in 1867, [...]

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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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Fort Laramie, Crossroads of the West

August 20, 2008

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. Soon to be known as Fort Laramie, it rested at a location that would quickly prove [...]

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