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Fort Laramie National Historic Site
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Fort Laramie preserves and sheds light on one of the most important locations in the history of westward expansion and Indian resistance. |
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In 1834 Fort Laramie started as a fur trading post in southern Wyoming. It was first called Fort William, then Fort John, and finally Fort Laramie. It was a place where the Cheyenne and Arapaho traded. Fort Laramie sat at a location along a natural route across the continent. By the 1840s, wagon trains bound for Oregon, California and Utah rested and re-supplied here. |
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