Fort Bridger, Wyoming : Trading Post for Indians, Mountain Men and Westward Migrants

Janin, Hunt

McFarland & Co Inc（2007/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786429127
• DDC分類 978.784

Full Description

For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger's role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper's journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     

List of Maps     

Preface     

Introduction     

1. Looking for the Frontier West      

2. Westering     

3. Indians of the Northern Rockies     

4. Mountain Men and the Fur Trade     

5. Gentiles and Saints: The Great Migrations     

6. Crossroads of the West     

7. Gold, Silver and Diamonds     

8. Frontier Ways of Life: Soldier, Cowboy, Outlaw, Sheepman, Buffalo Hunter      

9. Frontier Weapons     

10. The West of Our Imagination     

Appendices     

Selected Chronology     

Bibliography     

End Notes     

Index