fort laramie

Interview with Eric Jay Dolin

January 24, 2011

Eric Jay Dolin, the author of Fur, Fortune and Empire, the Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, sat down with the Frontier Traveler to discuss the impact of the fur trade on the history of America. FT: After writing Leviathan, did you see a similarity between the plight of the whale and the [...]

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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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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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