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Warren Air Force Base and its Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War Essay 10/12/2011
Vietnam: Army pilot Bill Graves swaps audio tapes with his family in 1967 People's History 10/7/2011
Connor Battlefield Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Fetterman Battlefield Encyclopedia 2/1/2012
Fort Bridger Encyclopedia 5/15/2012

Recent Articles

Essay | Bob David’s War: A Wyoming Soldier Serves in France
Bob David, an adopted boy reared by a well-to-do Wyoming family, never felt he truly belonged until he joined the military and went to France during World War I. He served in an artillery unit and...
Encyclopedia | Red Cloud’s War
When the U.S. Army in 1866 sent troops to build a string of forts along the Bozeman Trail north from the North Platte River to the Montana gold fields, Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in that...
Encyclopedia | Fort Phil Kearny
Fort Phil Kearny, near present-day Story, Wyo., was established by the U.S. Army in the summer of 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Indian attack. and abandoned two years later,...
Encyclopedia | Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie began as a fur-trade post in 1834 near the confluence of the Laramie and North Platte rivers. Soon it changed into a post for the trade in buffalo robes, and for supplying emigrants...
Encyclopedia | Fort McKinney
Cantonment Reno, at the Powder River Crossing of the Bozeman Trail in present Johnson County, was renamed Fort McKinney after the death of Lt. J.A. McKinney in 1876. That site was abandoned in 1878,...
Encyclopedia | Fort Fetterman
Fort Fetterman was established by the U.S. Army on the North Platte River near present Douglas, Wyo. in 1867. It served as a staging point for Gen. George Crook’s three campaigns against Cheyenne and...
Encyclopedia | Fort Fred Steele
In 1869, Fort Fred Steele was built by the U.S. Army to protect workers on the advancing transcontinental railroad at the spot where the rails crossed the North Platte River. The fort was closed in...