Entries Containing All of the Phrases «sublette county» AND «wyoming»

By Barry Swackhamer, August 25, 2014

Narcissa Prentiss Whitman Marker

RANKED BY RELEVANCE

1 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Daniel — Narcissa Prentiss Whitman — Eliza Hart Spalding —

To Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding Missionaries First white women in Wyoming and First women over Oregon Trail 1836 July 6 to July 18 was spent at “Green River Rendezvous” . . . — — Map (db m80518) HM

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2 ► Wyoming, Lincoln County, La Barge — James Bridger — Trapper 1844 —

He little knew that when he cut his name, or had it cut, in this stone, that it would be engraved in the annals of the West deeper than that of any other man. As one of the world's outstanding explorers he guided emigrants, railroads and army in . . . — — Map (db m308136) HM

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3 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Daniel — Pinckey W. Sublette — Died 1865 —

Buried on Fontenelle Creek, exhumed 1897, taken to the U.S.Circuit Court at St. Louis, Mo., returned by a court order to Sublette County, Wyoming to be buried here July 27, 1935. Placed July 4, 1936 The Historical Landmark Commission of . . . — — Map (db m80513) HM

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4 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Boulder — More Than Tracks Through the Brush — The Lander Road — California National Historic Trail —

As the first federally funded road built west of the Mississippi, the Lander Road played an important role in emigrant travel. Beginning in 1859, emigrants used this 256-mile alternate route. This saved them up to seven days of travel, bypassed . . . — — Map (db m314935) HM

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5 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Big Piney — Of Cattle and Men — Route of the Lander Cut-off —

You are standing just north of the route taken by thousands of people, cattle and horses migrating west on the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail, starting in 1858. None settled here then. By the late 1870s, cattle from the west . . . — — Map (db m85813) HM

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6 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Farson — Parting of the Ways —

This point on the trail is called the Parting-of-the-Ways. The trail to the right is the Sublette or Greenwood Cutoff and to the left is the main route of the Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails. The Sublette Cutoff was opened in 1844 because it . . . — — Map (db m96684) HM

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7 ► Wyoming, Sublette County, Boulder — “The Best Mountain Road in the West” — “A Cold Supper Was Eaten This Evening in Silence” — “Good Water, Abundance of Grass,” and Natural Gas! —

This maker consists of three plaques, each dealing with the Lander Cut-off. “The Best Mountain Road in the West” In 1857, Congress funded construction of the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lakes Wagon Road (Lander . . . — — Map (db m80540) HM

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