James Mason Diary FORT LARAMIE WYOMING JUNE 13, 1850

From Lyman, NE to Fort Laramie, WY Diary of James Mason Lyman June 12 – traveled 20 m & En near Platte passed a trading post about 20 from Laramie Laramie’s Peek of the rockey mountain can be Sen of Scott Bluff Distance 150 Miles June 13 – traveled 15 m & En passed Fort Laramie En a M from fort the Emigrattion over 20,000 men 280 women 285 children 5331 waggons 16,398 horses 5079 mules 10,752 oxen 1320 cows June 14 – rested wrote a Letter home

Diary of James Mason California Oregon Trail from Independence, MO - to Hangtown (Placerville, CA) Independence Placerville Ft Laramie – June 13

Diary of James MasonFt Laramie

Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie is best known for the years from 1849 to 1890, when it served as a military post in the western Indian Wars. Earlier fur-trade, robe-trade and emigrant-supply forts that existed on the same site from 1834 to 1849 are less known and understood. In the spring of 1834, Fort William on the Laramie was established by fur traders as a stockade made from cottonwood logs. In 1841, a replacement structure, Fort John, was built using adobe bricks. In 1849, the U. S. Army bought the structure and established a military post that became officially known as Fort Laramie, though the other two posts had often been known as the fort on the Laramie, or just Fort Laramie. The Army post existed until While not the earliest Euroamerican settlement in what we now know as Wyoming, Fort William/John/Laramie remains the longest continuously occupied Euroamerican location in the state.

Fort Laramie, WY

Ruins of Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Historical Site

Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie Hospital

Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie Hospital

Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Officers Quarters

Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Trading Post

Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Scale Model

END James Mason Diary FORT LARAMIE WYOMING JUNE 13, 1850