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Experience
the sagas of
Early Emigrants
along Wyoming's
Historic Trails

 

Independence Rock
by W. H. Jackson
courtesy Scotts Bluff National Monument

 
     

 

 

 

 


 
 

Photos Above: Ed Bille and his daughter Mary Hartman at groundbreaking ceremony for the National Historic Trails Center. Wagon and mule team at National Historic Trails Center groundbreaking [Emrich collection]

 
 


ED BILLE:

Inspired by a meeting with author, Ernest Hemingway, Ed Bille began to record historical sites in Wyoming in the early 1950’s.  He has also written Early Days at Salt Creek and Wyoming-A Pictorial Overview.

Mary Bille Hartman teaches second grade at Baggs Elementary School in Cheyenne and shares her father’s love for Wyoming history and for photography.

 

 

     

 




A Video Journey..

through old letters, diaries and journals, newspapers, sketches and photographs from the early and mid-nineteenth century.

Courageous pioneers braved attacks by outlaws and Indians, natural elements and many challenges.

It is their stories, pulled along continuous lines of wagons on the Oregon, California, Mormon, Cheyenne-Deadwood and Bozeman Trails, that transport us back to the settlement of the West.



Trails

- - - Oregon, California,
       & Mormon Trails

- - -
Cheyenne / Deadwood Trail
- - - Bozeman Trail
 
Forts

1. Fort Bridger
2. Fort Phil Kearny
3. Fort Reno
4. Fort Casper
5. Fort Fetterman
6. Fort Laramie
7. Fort D. A. Russell

 

 


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THE CHEYENNE-DEADWOOD TRAIL

 

There were numerous trails into the Black Hills during the gold rush days.  The most famous was the Cheyenne to Deadwood Trail over which  thousands of passengers, tons of freight and express, and millions of dollars of “treasure” traveled between 1876 and 1887.  Stagecoaches laden with gold bullion were inviting targets for road agents along the way.  This and the danger of Indian attacks, made this one of the most dangerous western trails.

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OREGON-CALIFORNIA-MORMON PIONEER TRAILS WITH THE PONY EXPRESS

 

The sagas of the Oregon-California Trail, the Mormon Pioneer Trail and the Pony Express are a collection of thousands of individual stories.  Ed Bille transports the viewer back to the days when early travelers left their homes in search of free land, quick riches and religious freedom.  Old diaries, letters, journals and newspapers, combined with artwork and photography tell stories of these trails as they wind their way through Wyoming.


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THE BOZEMAN TRAIL

 

The era of Western Trails is one of many great chapters in American history and a significant part of the Wyoming story.

Events of this era are marked by action and high adventure, great courage, determination and tragedy.

The Bozeman Trail was a transportation corridor that crossed Wyoming from south to north, providing access to the Montana gold fields, but it also passed through Indian hunting grounds. As a result, it was one of the bloodiest trails on the western frontier.

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