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The portion of the Wyoming Territory east of the continental divide was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in 1854. On March 2, 1861, the northern portion of the Nebraska Territory, including the northeastern portion of future Wyoming Territory, became part of the Dakota Territory ...
The Gratetan Massacre, also referred to as the Grattan Fight, was the initial conflict of the First Sioux War, occurring on August 19, 1854, between the United States Army and the Lakota Sioux warriors. This event took place east of Fort Laramie, located in the Nebraska Territory, which is now part of Goshen County, Wyoming.
In 1851, the first Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed, [5]: 168–182 resulting in relatively peaceful relations between the whites and the Native Americans during the 1850s, though troops from the fort made up the small force that was killed during the Grattan massacre of 1854 under the command of Second Lieutenant John Lawrence Grattan. During ...
1854: May 30: U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. The Territory of Nebraska includes all of the future State of Wyoming northeast of the Continental Divide of the Americas. 1853: March 2: U.S. President Millard Fillmore signs An Act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington ...
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799 – February 7, 1854) was an Irish fur trader in America [1] Indian agent, and mountain man. [2] He trapped for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the American Fur Company. He was among the first white men to discover South Pass, Wyoming.
Wyoming: A bicentennial history (WW Norton & Company, 1977). Lavender, David. Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier: Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming (United States Government Printing, 1983). link; Nicholas, Liza. “Wyoming as America: Celebrations, a Museum, and Yale.” American Quarterly 54#3 (2002), pp. 437–65. online
This is a list of the individual Wyoming year pages. In 1890, the United States admitted the Wyoming Territory as the 44th U.S. state, establishing the State of ...