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Keywords: A settler's wagon at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the LCCN2015634113.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; The original Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army named after Caspar Collins a U S Army lieutenant who was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians Originally founded in 1859 as a trading post and toll bridge on the Oregon Trail the post was later taken over by the Army and named Platte Bridge Station to protect emigrants and the telegraph line against Indian raids The site of the fort is now owned and operated by the City of Casper as the Fort Caspar Museum and Historic Site ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634113 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34000/34097a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34097 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34097 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith
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