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Bierstadt arrived at Fort Laramie in June 1859, during a time of tense relations between the Lakota & the United States government. Bierstadt made vivid field sketches of the Native peoples he encountered there.
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Fort Laramie lay at the crossroads of an old north-south Indian trail and what became known as the Oregon Trail. Called Fort Laramie because of the nearby Laramie Mountains and the Laramie Fork of the North Platte River
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Wyoming fort laramie Guard Mount, about 1885, facing officers’ quarters.
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