hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Fort Laramie (Wyoming, United States) or search for Fort Laramie (Wyoming, United States) in all documents.
Your search returned 12 results in 7 document sections:
Crazy horse,
Chief of the Ogallalla Sioux and brother-in-law of Red Cloud; born about 1842.
He was a leader of a large band of hostile Indians that for several years made much trouble for the national government in the Northwest Territories.
The murder of a brother in 1865 induced him to leave Fort Laramie, Wyo., and gather a force to war upon the whites.
In 1876, he united this force with that of Sitting Bull, and these two chiefs surprised the command under General Custer on the Little Big Horn River, June 25. 1876, and massacred almost every member of it. As soon as the fate of Custer and his comrades became known General Terry started in pursuit of the Indians, and followed then into the Black Hills region, but the wily leader escaped capture.
In the spring of 1877 a larger expedition was organized under command of General Crook, which surprised Crazy Horse's force at the Red Cloud Agency, and forced him to surrender with about 900 of his men.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slemmer , Adam J. 1828 - (search)
Slemmer, Adam J. 1828-
military officer; born in Montgomery county, Pa., in 1828; graduated at West Point in 1850; was promoted for gallant conduct in the Seminole War; was for a while assistant Professor of Ethics and Mathematics at West Point, and was in command of a small garrison at Fort McRae, near Pensacola, when the Civil War broke out. He took his men and supplies to stronger Fort Pickens, and held it against the Confederates until relieved by Colonel Brown (see Pickens, Fort). He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862; was severely wounded in the battle of Stone River, and was disabled from further active service.
In March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army, and was afterwards commandant at Fort Laramie, Kan., where he died, Oct. 7, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
State of Wyoming,
Erected from Wyoming Territory, which was formed by act of Congress in 1868 from portions of Dakota, Idaho, and Utah.
The first settlement within its borders was made in 1834 at Fort Laramie.
The first agricultural settlers were a company of Mormons, in 1853.
When the territory was created, in 1868, it had only 3,000 white
State seal of Wyoming. inhabitants.
It was admitted as a State in 1890, with a land area of 97,575 square miles.
The Constitution provides that men and women shall have equal right to vote.
The capital, and largest city, is Cheyenne, also the county seat of Laramie county.
Population in 1890, 60,705; in 1900, 92,521.
See United States, Wyoming, in vol.
IX.
Territorial governors.
John A. Campbellassumes office1869
John M. Thayerassumes office1875
John M. Hoytassumes office1879
William Haleassumes office1883
F. E. Warrenassumes office1885
Thomas Moonlightassumes officeJan. 24, 1887
F. E. Warrenassumes office1889
State gov