Fort Bridger Wyoming

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786429127

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Fort Bridger, Wyoming by Hunt Janin Pdf

For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger's role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper's journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0786450371

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Fort Bridger, Wyoming by Hunt Janin Pdf

For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger’s role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper’s journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.

Author : Robert Spurrier Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Fort Bridger (Wyo.)
ISBN : LCCN:33027887

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Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a Brief History by Robert Spurrier Ellison Pdf

Author : Robert Spurrier Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Fort Bridger (Wyo.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822042768564

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Fort Bridger, Wyoming by Robert Spurrier Ellison Pdf

Author : Ephriam D. Dickson III and Mark J. Nelson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467131452

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Fort Bridger by Ephriam D. Dickson III and Mark J. Nelson Pdf

The history of Fort Bridger represents a microcosm of the development of the American West. Situated in an area initially inhabited by the Shoshone people, Fort Bridger was established during a transitional phase between the fur-trade era and the period of western migration. The fort became one of the most important supply points along the nation's western trail network. Later, the post served as a bastion of civilization as one of a number of western military posts. Soldiers at the fort protected not only the lives and property of its local citizenry but also the emerging transportation and communication advancements of a nation. Following the Army's departure, a small settlement emerged at Fort Bridger, using buildings and materials from the old military garrison. Today, the fort and town remain active, in part as a respite for travelers just as it had been more than 150 years ago.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342485

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The WPA Guide to Wyoming by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, on the fiftieth anniversary of the state, the WPA Guide to Wyoming is a thorough reflection of both the history of the state’s pioneer routes as well an attempt to capture the beauty of the surrounding area in photographs. Descriptions of the Equality State’s livestock and oil industries are included as well as pictorial documentation of the area’s vast expanses of open land.

Author : J. Cecil Alter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806174297

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Jim Bridger by J. Cecil Alter Pdf

On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed to enterprising young men in the St. Louise area. The subscriber, it said wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry or of the subscriber near St. Louise. The subscriber was General William H. Ashley, and among the enterprising young men who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was eighteen-year-old James Bridger, former blacksmiths apprentice. So began the Ashley-Henry fur empire and the long, colorful career of Jim Bridger. In the years that followed, Jim Bridger became a master mountain man, an expert trapper, and a guide without equal. He came to know the Rocky Mountain region and its inhabitants as a farmer knows his fields and flocks. Indeed, J. Cecil Alter tells us, he was among the first white men to use the Indian trail over South Pass; he was first to taste the waters of the Great Salt lake, first to report a two-ocean stream, foremost in describing the Yellowstone Park phenomena, and the only man to run the Big Horn River rapid on a raft; and he originally selected the Crow Creek-Sherman-Dale Creek route the Laramie Mountains and Bridgers Pass over the Continental Divide, which were adopted by the Union pacific Railroad. Such knowledge, together with extraordinary skill and uncanny luck, preserved Jim Bridger in a country where nearly half of his mountain companions met violent death. It also gave rise to a brood of impossible tales about Old Gabe and his adventures-tales which he himself may unwittingly have helped along with his droll humor. Based on Mr. Alters original biography of 1925 (a facsimile edition of which, with addenda, appeared in 1950) and a wealth of new facts gleaned from many years of careful research, Jim Bridger is the authentic story of the Old Scouts life. Only those events in which Bridger took part are included; improbable and uncorroborated stories, however interesting, have been omitted.

Author : Jerry Enzler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806170008

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Jim Bridger by Jerry Enzler Pdf

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.

Author : Rosemary G. Palmer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756519756

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Jim Bridger by Rosemary G. Palmer Pdf

Learn about this important figure of the Old West.

Author : James A. Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023633550

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The Bridger Trail by James A. Lowe Pdf

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Author : Jerry Enzler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806169798

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Jim Bridger by Jerry Enzler Pdf

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.

Author : Clarice Whittenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89072941099

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Wyoming's People by Clarice Whittenburg Pdf

Author : John Legg
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312954476

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Blood at Fort Bridger by John Legg Pdf

One-eyed Pete Riley, a former mountain man who blacksmiths at an important pioneer stop at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, is unwilling to overlook the murders of innocent Shoshoni villagers after an attack on the fort. Original.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11350732

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Congressional Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Board of Arbitrators for the Purpose of Appraising the Valuation of Certain Buildings on the Military Reservation of Fort Bridger, Wyo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Fort Bridger (Wyo.)
ISBN : PRNC:32101078194766

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Buildings on Fort Bridger Military Reservation by United States. Board of Arbitrators for the Purpose of Appraising the Valuation of Certain Buildings on the Military Reservation of Fort Bridger, Wyo Pdf