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Fort Laramie National Historic Site |
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Fort Laramie National Historic Site (lâr`əmē), 833 acres (337 hectares), SE Wyo.; est. 1938. Founded in 1834 as a fur-trading post by William Sublette and Robert Campbell, it was bought by the American Fur Company in 1836. In 1849 it became a U.S. army post, which later served as a major stopping place on the Overland Trail Overland Trail, any of several trails of westward migration in the United States. The term is sometimes used to mean all the trails westward from the Missouri to the Pacific and sometimes for the central trails only. ..... Click the link for more information. . The fort was garrisoned until 1890. See National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments National Parks Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size acres (hectares)
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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery. ..... Click the link for more information. , table. |
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The Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, signed in 1868, had promised peace with the Sioux. At Fort Laramie, in what is now Wyoming, Reed bumped into an old friend named James Clyman, a man who had ridden over the Hastings Cutoff. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 recognized Lakota ownership of the Missouri River and millions of acres to the west. |
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