Fort Laramie is one of the great frontier posts in the West, now restored as a national historic site with a complete complement of structures: Army barracks, enlisted men’s and officers’ quarters situated around the parade ground, Old Bedlam (Wyoming’s oldest standing building) and the sutler’s store.
This post, located near the confluence of the North Platte and Laramie Rivers, served the fur trade, overland trail travelers and the Army before it became a starting point for traveler

April 2014
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- Peter Iverson on Navajo History
- Nez Perce in Yellowstone
- Gunsmoke’s Gun for Hire
- Rough Drafts 4/14
- Davy Crockett’s “Ol’ Betsy” Found
- Battle of the Plaza
- A Saga of Bloody Kansas
- On the Trail of History
- CSI: Fort Union
- Profile in Leadership
- Texas Hill Country Trail: Cavalry, Cowboys and Germans
- Mules & Canyons, Oh My!
- On the Trail of Old Arizona
- Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- Buried Treasures
- April 2014 Events
- What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
- Rambles Through the Nebraska Panhandle
- Following North Dakota’s Sheyenne River
- Bozeman Trail
- Thomas Brent Smith
- Rediscovering the Mandan’s Heart of the World
- Race, Rodeo and the West
- Huber’s Café
- Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
- Living for the Dream in Your Heart
- Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West?
- Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?
- Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers?
- Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car?
- On the California Trail: Salt Lake City to Sacramento
- Timothy O’Sullivan
- JUSTIFIED: SEASON FOUR
- True Westerner of 2014
- The First Lincoln County War