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Following Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick

by | Jan 29, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

On the trapper trail from Wyoming’s Fort Laramie to La Junta, Colorado.
Irish immigrant Thomas Fitzpatrick signed on with William Ashley to head out West in search of beaver in 1823. He traveled up the Missouri River, and from there he joined his fellow mountain-bound men in a confrontation with Arikaras. Surviving the fight, he continued on into central Wyoming and wintered in the Wind River Valley with Bible-toting moun


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