Fort Laramie News

Patricia Ann \"Patty\" Latta Milligan, age 76 of Ft. Laramie, WY, passed away Thursday, November 19, 2009 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff.

Hundreds of people are getting lost in Lingle... Ellis Harvest Homes has opened their farm again this year for an eleven acre corn maze, and people young and old are enjoying the fall fun.

The store, officers' quarters and troops barracks at Fort Laramie are restored to look as they did in the 1800s, when the post served as a hub for settlers moving west, trappers, traders and gold seekers.

In an effort a oeto better acquaint the public with the discipline of archaeology and strengthen the enduring bond between past and present in the Equality State,a Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal proclaimed September as Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month during a brief ceremony in his office today.

A Lingle woman's photography will be sold in over 10,000 Hallmark stores nationwide on the front of a birthday card.

Here's a little proof that rogue capitalists have plagued our precious resources in California longer than first thought... Would you spend $100 for a glass of water? Some 49ers on the California Trail did.

Walter L. Elmore, age 49, of Fort Laramie, died June 20 at 3:35 in the morning, enroute to the hospital after he was in a one-vehicle crash on Kaspiere Road in Goshen County.

Three men are dead in two separate vehicle accidents in Goshen County over the weekend.

This image provided by the Fort Laramie National Historic Site shows a painting by Rex Norman, circa 1834, of Fort William, that was also know as Fort Laramie, built in 1834 at the confluence of the Platte and Laramie rivers in Wyoming.

The frontiersmen who built this outpost in 1834 picked a spot they hoped would enable them to dominate the regional buffalo-hide trade: a valley where two rivers run together and the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains.

Frontiersmen built the fort in 1834 to serve as a hub for trading buffalo hides with the American Indians.