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    The Bozeman Trail was an overland route in the Western United States, connecting the gold rush territory of southern Montana to the Oregon Trail in eastern...
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    day north-central Wyoming. In 1863, European Americans had blazed the Bozeman Trail through the heart of the traditional territory of the Cheyenne, Arapaho...
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    John Merin Bozeman (January 1835 – April 20, 1867) was a pioneer and frontiersman in the American West who helped establish the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming...
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    along with a partner named John Jacob, opened the Bozeman Trail, a new northern trail off the Oregon Trail leading to the mining town of Virginia City through...
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    eastern half of the trail was also used by travelers on the California Trail (from 1843), Mormon Trail (from 1847), and Bozeman Trail (from 1863) before...
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  • includes a list of people with the name Bozeman Pass, a mountain pass situated east of Bozeman, Montana Bozeman Trail, an overland route connecting the gold...
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    The U.S. military mission was intended to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail. A group of ten warriors, including Crazy Horse, acted to lure a detachment...
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    1863, John Bozeman following ancient routes long used by Indians, blazed the Bozeman Trail through the middle of the basin. The Bozeman Trail ran within...
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    were traveling on the Bozeman Trail, improving it as they went. The wagon train was besieged for 13 days at the Bozeman Trail ford on the Tongue River...
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    Crazy Woman Crossing (category Bozeman Trail)
    Crazy Woman Crossing is a historic place on the Bozeman Trail, in Johnson County, Wyoming, United States, about twenty miles southeast of Buffalo. Crazy...
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    existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail. Construction began in 1866 on Friday, July 13, by Companies A, C, E...
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    mountain ranges. It is named after pioneer John Bozeman, a young Georgian who opened the Bozeman Trail from Fort Laramie, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana...
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    Nelson Story (category People from Bozeman, Montana)
    to Montana along the Bozeman Trail—the first major cattle drive from Texas into Montana. His business ventures in Bozeman were so successful that he became...
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    prospectors to find a trail to travel from central Wyoming to Montana. In 1863, John Bozeman and John Jacobs scouted the Bozeman Trail, which was a direct...
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  • sections of the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Typically there are sections of trail that are concentrated...
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    The Chisholm Trail (/ˈt͡ʃɪzəm/ CHIZ-əm) was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, crossed the...
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    courts. It stipulated that the government would abandon forts along the Bozeman Trail and included a number of provisions designed to encourage a transition...
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    major factor in the Wagon Box Fight and the Hayfield Fight, along the Bozeman Trail in 1867. The rapid rate of fire that could be achieved disrupted the...
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  • Townsend Wagon Train Fight (category Bozeman Trail)
    The Townsend Wagon Train Fight occurred on the Bozeman Trail near the Powder River and present day Kaycee, Wyoming on July 7, 1864. This wagon train consisted...
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  • the Springfield Model 1866 had seen limited issue to troops along the Bozeman Trail in 1867). The rifle, in both full-length and carbine versions, was widely...
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    October 11, 2021. Hebard, Grace Raymond; Brininstool, E. A. (1922). The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes Into the...
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    Johnson County, Wyoming. The fort was built to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Native American tribes. One of the primary goals of the Powder...
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    "Perceptions of a Mountain Man: John "Jeremiah Liver-Eating" Johnston at Old Trail Town, Cody, Wyoming." The Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal v.1 (2007): 93–106...
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    allied forces continued to raid European-American parties along the Bozeman Trail. The area has been designated as a Wyoming State Historic Site and is...
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    while gold seekers travelled north into the [Crow] region along the Bozeman [Trail]."[citation needed] Steamboats on the Missouri River brought additional...
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    University. Retrieved September 13, 2018. Roberts, Gary L. (March 24, 2012). "Trailing an American Mythmaker: History and Glenn G. Boyer's Tombstone Vendetta"...
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    blazed the Bridger Trail, an alternative route from Wyoming to the gold fields of Montana that avoided the dangerous Bozeman Trail. In 1865, he served...
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    passing through the Bozeman Trail, which was the fastest and easiest trail from Fort Laramie to the Montana goldfields. The Bozeman Trail passed right through...
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    Executive Document No. 13, p. 127. Utley, Robert M.: The Bozeman Trail before John Bozeman: A Busy Land. Montana, the Magazine of Western History. Vol...
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    to their capture or deaths. Longabaugh and Logan used a log cabin at Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, as a hide-out, as they planned to rob a bank in Red...
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