1. James Mason Diary FORT LARAMIE WYOMING JUNE 13, 1850

2. 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

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

4. Diary of James MasonFt Laramie

5. 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 1890. 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.

6. Fort Laramie, WY

10. Ruins of Fort Laramie

11. Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

12. Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

13. Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie

14. Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Historical Site

15. Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie Hospital

16. Fort Laramie, WY Ruins of Fort Laramie Hospital

17. Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Officers Quarters

18. Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Trading Post

19. Fort Laramie, WY Fort Laramie Scale Model

20. END James Mason Diary FORT LARAMIE WYOMING JUNE 13, 1850