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Fort Halleck was a military outpost that existed in the 1860s along the Overland Trail and stage route in what was then the Territory of Idaho, now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1862 to protect emigrant travelers and stages transporting mail between Kansas and Salt Lake City, Utah, and named for Major General Henry ...
Halleck lies at the interchange of Interstate 80 and State Route 229 northeast of the city of Elko. [1] Its elevation is 5,230 feet (1,590 m). [2] The community is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. Halleck has a post office with the ZIP code 89824. [3] The post office was established April 24, 1873.
Henry Halleck. Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory: "Old Brains". He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and ...
Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was used during the 19th century by Great Plains pioneers who were seeking fertile land in the West ...
The Wyoming Valley is a historic industrialized region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The region is historically notable for its influence in helping fuel the American Industrial Revolution with its many anthracite coal-mines. As a metropolitan area, it is known as the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, after its principal cities ...
8 killed. The Battle of Platte Bridge, also called the Battle of Platte Bridge Station, on July 26, 1865, was the culmination of a summer offensive by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians against the United States army. In May and June the Indians raided army outposts and stagecoach stations over a wide swath of Wyoming and Montana.
September 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM. Sep. 20—EXETER — An undefeated run through the Wyoming Valley Conference for the Wyoming Seminary golf team was capped off in a major way on Friday: with a ...
UTC-7 (PDT) ZIP code. 89823 [2] Area code. 775. GNIS feature ID. 845424 [1] Deeth (Shoshoni language: Teai[3]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place near the intersection of Interstate 80 and Nevada State Route 230 in Elko County, Nevada, United States.