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The Fort Laramie National Monument was established, which became the Fort Laramie National Historic Site in 1960. [ 15 ] In a 1983 document, the National Park Service (NPS) describes a 536-acre historic district within the larger national historic site containing all of the historic structures, buildings, ruins, and sites, as well as a separate ...
Fort Laramie is a town in Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 206 at the 2020 census . The town is named after historic Fort Laramie , an important stop on the Oregon , California and Mormon trails, as well as a staging point for various military excursions and treaty signings.
The Lands of the 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty [14] The Crow Indian territory (area 517, 619 and 635) as described in Fort Laramie Treaty (1851), now in Montana and Wyoming, included the western Powder River area and the Yellowstone area with tributaries like the Tongue River, the Rosebud River, and the Bighorn River.
The Fort Laramie site was one of a number of so-called "hog ranches" that appeared along trails in Wyoming. [3] Located about 3 miles (4.8 km) from old Fort Laramie, the ranch was established in 1873 by Jules Ecoffey and Adolph Cuny as a trading post and saloon. The next year prostitution was added as a further attraction. [3]
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also the Sioux Treaty of 1868 [b]) is an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation, following the failure of the first Fort Laramie treaty, signed in 1851. The treaty is divided into 17 articles.
The Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868 effectively designated the Wind River Valley as exclusive territory of the Shoshone, superseding the Crow's 1851 Fort Laramie treaty claims. In 1872, the Shoshone agreed to sell part of the reservation to the U.S., establishing the North Fork of the Popo Agie River as a southern border. [14]
Fort Laramie is a CBS Radio Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30 pm ET. [1] Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century.
This event took place east of Fort Laramie, located in the Nebraska Territory, which is now part of Goshen County, Wyoming. A small contingent of soldiers entered a large Sioux camp to apprehend an individual accused of killing a migrant's cow, despite the fact that such issues were supposed to be resolved by the US Indian agent according to ...