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Fort Bridger State Park |
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Fort Bridger State Park, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, SW Wyo. The supply post, founded by U.S. fur trader James Bridger in 1843, was an important station on the Oregon Trail Oregon National Historic Trail (see National Parks and Monuments , table). An interpretive center is in Baker City, Oreg.
BibliographyThe classic work by F. Parkman, The Oregon Trail, actually concerns only the eastern part of the trail. ..... Click the link for more information. . The Mormons held Fort Bridger from 1853 until 1857. The post was then leased to the U.S. army, which maintained it as a fort until 1890. Some of the original buildings still survive. |
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