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History of Fort Laramie

Alfred Jacob Miller - Fort Laramie - Walters

For more than half a century Fort Laramie was the most important historical point in the great Northwest region between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast. It was the central base of supplies and a military station on the overland trails across the plains and mountains to Oregon, California and Utah, over which the “forty-niners,” Mormons and Oregon emigrants trekked in huge trains and cavalcades. For many years it was the rendezvous of the most powerful Indian tribes of the Northwest. It was the headquarters of the most famous explorers, hunters, trappers, scouts, guides and fur traders known in western history, including such men as Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Jim Baker, Bordeau, Chatillion. La Ramie, St. Vrain. etc., and later Buffalo Bill, Frank Grouard, Big Bat and others.

Old Ridge Cemetery Burials, Weston County, Wyoming

Researched by Maxine Kaul in the Newcastle News and Newcastle Journal. Newcastle’s first cemetery, located in Sec. 45N, R61W, consists of 1/4 acres, which is smaller than the original cemetery. The land was given to the Weston County Historical Society by Tom and Marilyn Arnold. To get there: travel west on the by-pass on Hwy 16, turn left on the Fairground Road. Travel 1 mile on the gravel road. When you come to the dead end on the road going north and south, turn west(right) and travel 1/4 mile. The cemetery is fenced on the left and has a wrought iron gate, a … Read more

Greenwood Cemetery, Newcastle, Wyoming

NOTE: This is an index of cemetery lot owners, not actual burials. Turn north on Delaware Ave from Hwy 16 between the Loaf N Jug and the Christian Church. Transcribed by Marlene Dixon This index is from the Greenwood Cemetery Record Book located in the Newcastle City Hall and is several years out of date. Names appear exactly as they are in the book. Corrections are listed after page#. Pages 23 & 24 are missing from the book, but are included in the index in the front of it. Name Page # Name Page # Adams, John 60 Jackson, P. S. … Read more

Cambria Cemetery, Weston County, Wyoming

This is a list of people buried in the Cambria Cemetery that was compiled by Maxine Kaul from personal research in old newsprint, previous lists by Hazel Wiltse, DAR, and published in “Black Hills Nuggets” also from personal correspondence and conversations, and names from other newsprint readers such as Neil Sweet, Irene Tunnell and personally reading inquests in the Weston County Clerk of Courts office. Additional information is available at the Anna Miller Museum, Newcastle, WY. (I) designates an inquest Name Birth date Death date Adam, Thomasi (I) 12 Jan 1912 Adams, Gerald 04 Jan 1896 02 Nov 1896 Aimone, Frank 1881 24 Jul … Read more

Yellowstone National Park

The first division of the vast region embraced in the original Uinta County was made in 1872, when the Congress of the United States set apart the Yellowstone National Park. It contains three thousand three hundred forty-eight square miles, all of which, except a small boundary to the east, north and west, comprising less than three hundred square miles, lay within the original Uinta County. This is the largest park in the world. It is not the purpose of this history to enter into a description of the wonders that have been the inspiration of some of the most beautiful … Read more

Vicinity of Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming

The first permanent settlement on Bear River was made by John Myers. In 1855 he came across the plains to Utah, and two years later was working as carpenter at Fort Bridger. In 186o he made his home on the east bank of Bear River at the point where the Salt Lake Trail crossed the stream, and from that day the place has been known as Myers’ Crossing. Among the group of well-kept buildings situated near the lower boundary of the ranch there was conspicuous for many years a two-story frame dwelling that had been moved to Hilliard and was … Read more

Union Pacific Railroad

The evolution of a mountain road may seem a far cry from the building of a great railway. In the first we have the trail of deer and buffalo following the path of least resistance as marked out by mountain streams in their journey to the sea, taken up in turn by Indian, trapper and explorer, and they succeeded by horseman and wagon, each doing his part in defining the highway of the future. There may seem but little similarity between the winding road and the steel rails seeking the shortest route between two given points, but the difference is … Read more

Uinta County, Wyoming Census

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Uinta County, Wyoming Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Uinta County, Wyoming Evanston Cemetery (Woodsmen) Evanston Cemetery Lyman Cemetery Lone Tree Cemetery McGinnis Bullock Cemetery Millburne Cemetery

Shoshone Indians of Uinta County, Wyoming

The Indians most closely associated with western Wyoming were the Shoshones. As a race, they are connected to the Utes and Piutes, who have settled to the south of them, but are of a higher order of physical and mental development than these root-eating relations. On the other hand, they are quite distinct from the Arapahoes, their neighbors on the north, with whom they seldom intermarry, as each looks down upon the other with true tribal pride and prejudice. The Shoshone is more reticent and has been slower in following the lead of the white man in accepting religious teaching, … Read more