Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890

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  • Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 Book Detail

  • Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
  • Release Date : 2018-08
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 13 : 1496205243
  • File Size : 73,73 MB
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Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 by LeRoy Reuben Hafen PDF Summary

Book Description: To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the American Fur Company and patronized by trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. Then it was a vital supply center and rest stop for a tide of emigrants--missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, and homeseekers. As more wagons rolled west and the Pony Express came through, the need for protection increased; in 1849, Fort Laramie was converted from a trapper's post into a military fort. Down through the years there were skirmishes with the Plains Indians, who sometimes came to the fort to barter and to treat. The peace council of 1851--one of the largest gatherings of tribes ever seen in the Old West--is here described in fascinating detail. The cast of characters in this great historical pageant reads like a who's who of the American West.

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Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From