Fort Laramie
July 29th 2008
After staying the night in a place called Newcastle, we headed off to "Fort Laramie".
This military post, was founded in 1849 when the army purchased the old Fort John for $4000, and began to build a military outpost along the Oregon Trail.
Having seen the fort on numerous westerns, I was suprised to find that it was and always was an open fort.
(The popular view of a weste
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