Forts of the Northern Plains

I have a hankering to put some more miles on my car, so I fill my gas tank and head west to visit some of the forts established in the Intermountain West and Northern Plains during the 19th century. I could follow the dirt roads from my house in Encampment, Wyoming, to Fort Bridger, but in the interest of time, I leave the home ranch to reach Fort Bridger off Interstate 80. Admittedly this is not the way Jim Bridger and Henry Fraeb would have gone. Those two mountain trappers starte