When trappers first began roaming the hills and plains of what became Wyoming and Colorado in the early 19th century, they gathered from time to time at locations that quickly became established ...

The frontiersmen who built this outpost in 1834 picked a spot they hoped would enable them to dominate the regional buffalo-hide trade: a valley where two rivers run together and the Great Plains meet ...

FORT LARAMIE – Fort Laramie National Historic Site has an upcoming event weekend on Aug. 8-10 titled Circle of Fire, and it will highlight the history of the fort in 1865. The event will include ...

A group of horseback riders is traveling to the Fort Laramie National Historic Site to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie’s signing. Percy White Plume of the Horse ...

Native Americans from across the Northern Plains are gathering at Fort Laramie, Wyo., this weekend to mark the 150th anniversary of a treaty between the Lakota people and the United States. It's a ...

For many Native American tribes in the West, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 stands out in a list of broken agreements. It wasn’t the treaty that was so bad. Settlers and soldiers were pressing deeper ...

FORT LARAMIE — As a result of being buildings that were never meant to last more than 10 to 15 years, historic preservations at military forts, like the Fort Laramie National Historical Site, pose ...

It's just prior to the Civil War and Fort Laramie's problem is the Sioux Indians. When it is announced that war has been declared the fort becomes divided between northerners and southerners. The fort ...

The frontiersmen who built this outpost in 1834 picked a spot they hoped would enable them to dominate the regional buffalo-hide trade: a valley where two rivers run together and the Great Plains meet ...

Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, General William S. Harney, General Alfred H. Terry, General O. O. Augur, J. B. Henderson, Nathaniel G. Taylor, John G. Sanborn ...