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The Bozeman Trail was an overland route in the Western United States, connecting the gold rush territory of southern Montana to the Oregon Trail in eastern Wyoming. Its important period was from 1863 to 1868. While the major part of the route used by Bozeman Trail travelers in 1864 was pioneered by Allen Hurlbut, it was named after John Bozeman ...
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The Bozeman Trail was developed by the United States as a military road and telegraph route to serve these forts. Within a few years, several stage coach lines were established that hauled freight and passengers along the trail. In 1878, August Trabing established a trading post at the Crazy Woman Crossing.
The U.S. Army was ordered by the United States Department of War in the national capital of Washington, D.C. to build at least four additional forts in the Montana Territory (future State of Montana) to protect the Bozeman trail and wagon road after travel had become hazardous for any but the largest and best-armed parties.
Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail.Construction began in 1866 on Friday, July 13, by Companies A, C, E, and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Colonel Henry B. Carrington.
Several sections of the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Typically there are sections of trail that are concentrated at geographic features such as fords or crossings of divides, where the trail consolidates from a broad swath of parallel, poorly defined paths to a small area where remnants of the trail are visible.
The Lake Desmet Segment is a one-mile long set of trail ruts that are a well-preserved portion of the Bozeman Trail in Johnson County, Wyoming. The ruts are located about a mile west of Lake Desmet on the down slope of the hill overlooking the lake. This portion of the trail is on private property, so permission is required to visit. [2]
Bozeman (/ ˈ b oʊ z m ə n / BOHZ-mən) is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States.The 2020 United States census put Bozeman's population at 53,293, making it Montana's fourth-largest city. [7]