Fort Laramie
Park History, 1834-1977
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure 1. Fort William, a log stockade
built in 1834, was the first Fort Laramie. It was sketched in water
color by A. J. miller in 1837. (Photo courtesy of the Walters Art
Gallery, Baltimore.)
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Figure 2. Fort John, the second Fort
Laramie, was an adobe structure built in 1841 by the American Fur
Company. It was sketched in 1849 by emigrant James F. Wilkins.
(Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.)
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Figure 3. This sketch by Merritt Houghton
in the Signal Corps Collection of the National Archives, Washington,
D.C., shows Fort Laramie just before abandonment in 1889.
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Figure 4. Bachelor officers were quartered
in Old Bedlam, shown here in an 1889 photograph. It was the setting for
Captain Charles King's famous novel, Queen of Bedlam.
(Photograph courtesy of E. A. Brininstool.)
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Last Updated: 01-Mar-2003
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