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GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| WYOMING. |
| PART of Wyoming, west of
the Rocky Mountains, was included
in the Oregon country. The lower
Green River country about Fort
Bridger pertained to Mexico, and
became American soil after the
treaty of 1848. The Territory of
Wyoming was formed from parts of
Dakota, Idaho and Utah, in 1868.
The first white visitors were the
Canadian explorers under Lieut.
de la Verendrye who, in 1743-44
ascended the gorges of Wind
River. A pair of Illinois
trappers and Colter, one of Lewis
and Clark's men, spent part of
1804-7 in the Park region,
followed by the heroic hunters of
the Missouri Fur Company, who
were obliged to fight the Indians
throughout all these lonely
glens. The first settlement was
at Fort Laramie in 1834, and in
1842 the famous trapper, James
Bridger, erected the log
lock-house of Fort Bridger, near
Green River, but in 1853 it
passed into the hands of the
Mormons, who were unwilling to
suffer a Gentile stronghold so
near to their domain. |
| The
first migration to the Pacific
Coast passed across Wyoming in
1834. The first agricultural
settlers were the Mormons, sent
by their church to occupy the
Green river valley in 1853. The
Indians waged almost continuous
warfare against the immigrants
and killed them by hundreds. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Emigrant
Train on the Way to the Pacific
Coast; Great Falls
of the Yellowstone; Hunters of
the Missouri Fur Co., 1810. |
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