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    Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming...
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    1861, Bridger was a guide for Edward L. Berthoud. From October 1863 until April 1864, Bridger was employed as a guide at Fort Laramie. Bridger then served...
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    eponymous Fort Bridger, established in 1842, which is located within the boundaries of the CDP. Fort Bridger was established in 1843 by Jim Bridger and Louis...
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    at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Essentially from that...
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    the same path through most of the state. The Mormon Trail splits at Fort Bridger and enters Utah, while the Oregon and California Trails continue to Idaho...
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    Indian Reservation in Wyoming, after their leader, Washakie signed the Fort Bridger Treaty in 1868. The Eastern Shoshone adopted horses much sooner than...
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    maintained as a satellite site of Wyoming's Fort Bridger State Historic Site. What is presently known as the Bridger Valley (also called the Green River Valley)...
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    Vandeveer Hayden for Fort Bridger, which had itself been named for mountain man Jim Bridger. The Bridger Wilderness covers much of the Bridger Formation's area...
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  • Fort Bridger, Wyoming, census-designated place Bridger Mountains (Wyoming) Bridger Range (Montana) Bridger Trail, emigration trail in Wyoming Bridger...
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    overland fur trade was still prosperous, when Jim Bridger and Tom Fitzpatrick bought the place. The fort was located near the confluence of two rivers, so...
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    able to organize and equip his expedition with the help of the US Army, Fort Bridger and the railroads. After the passage of the Sundry Civil bill, Hayden...
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    The Fort Bridger Rendezvous is an annual reenactment of fur trading as it happened from 1825 to 1840 between mountain men, Native Americans, fur trappers...
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    was established when the US Army built a road over Bridger Pass to Fort Bridger. By 1862 the Bridger Pass route of the Cherokee Trail was a well wore road...
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  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 This Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868, was also known as the Great...
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    Ayres Natural Bridge, and Register Cliff. In 1847, Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers departed from the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming and...
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  • Captain Howard Stansbury's expedition was returning east. At Fort Bridger, Jim Bridger advised Stansbury of a shorter route than the Oregon Trail. According...
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  • there, the detachment of recruits marched the eleven miles south to Fort Bridger, headquarters of the Fourth Infantry, where they arrived on the afternoon...
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    Interstate 80 (I-80) through Fort Bridger and Lyman in eastern Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. I-80 Bus begins at the Fort Bridger interchange on I-80 (exit 34)...
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    stampede the army's cattle. In early October, Legion members burned down Fort Bridger lest it falls into the hands of the army. A few days later, three large...
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    of America (1868). Fort Bridger Treaty . OCLC 865163189 – via Wikisource. Government of the United States of America (1868). Fort Laramie Treaty . OCLC 25828055...
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    Stanley (1970). Jim Bridger. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 272,321–322. ISBN 9780803257207. Brown, Dee (1962). Fort Phil Kearny: An American...
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  • The Bridger family of Virginia is notable to American history. Relevant figures include Joseph Bridger and Jim Bridger, as well as some less-known contributors...
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    Ayres Natural Bridge and Register Cliff. In 1847, Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers departed from the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming and...
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    Francisco, by the route just described. The cutoff left the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming, passed through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake...
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    and California. Ft. Bridger (1,183 miles (1,904 km) west) – Fort Bridger was established in 1842 by famous mountain man Jim Bridger. This was the site...
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    frontier forts marked trailheads for major alternative routes through Utah and Wyoming to Northern California. The first was Jim Bridger's Fort Bridger (est...
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    Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in the Wind River Valley for Jim Bridger. He hunted with Bridger and Kit Carson and in 1840 returned home to Illinois and St...
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    legislature of the Wyoming Territory, with its temporary seat located at Fort Bridger. Originally, it ran along the entire western border of Wyoming, including...
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    trip from California to Fort Bridger, a scant supply station run by Jim Bridger at Blacks Fork, Wyoming. Hastings stayed at the fort to persuade travelers...
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  • historic byway, incorporating the small towns of Fort Bridger, Urie, Mountain View, and Lyman". Bridger Valley Historic Byway is an approximately 20 miles...
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