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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crazy horse, (search)
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)
nto the wilderness to spy out a promised land for an everlasting habitation. They chose the Great Salt Lake Valley, enclosed within lofty and rugged mountains, fertile, isolated, and healthful; and thitherward, in the early summer of 1847, a chosen band of 143 men, accompanied by their wives and children and the members of the high council, with seventy wagons drawn by horses, proceeded as pioneers to take possession of the country. They passed up the north fork of the Platte River to Fort Laramie, crossed Salt Lake City. that stream, followed its course along the banks of the Black Hills to South Pass, which they penetrated. Along the rivers, through deep canons, over the lofty Utah Mountains, they toiled on until, on the evening of July 20, they saw, from the summits of the Wasatch Mountains, the placid Salt Lake glittering in the beams of the setting sun. It was like the vision of the Hebrew law-giver on Mount Pisgah. It was a scene of wondrous interest. Stretched out befo
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)
4,500 39North Dakota1780PembinaFrench188970,795 40South Dakota1857Sioux FallsAmericans188977,650 41Montana1827Fort UnionAmericans1889146,080 42Washington1845TumwaterAmericans188969,180 43Idaho1834Fort HallAmericans189084,800 44Wyoming1834Fort LaramieAmericans189097,890 45Utah1847Salt Lake CityAmericans189684,928 On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress resolved that in all continental commissions where heretofore the words United Colonies have been used, the style be altered for theing been transmitted, the cable lost its conducting power.] Seizure of the Echo, a slaver, with 318 slaves, by the United States brig Dolphin, Lieut. John H. Maffit commanding......Aug. 21, 1858 Fifteen hundred United States troops leave Fort Laramie for the suppression of Mormon troubles in Utah......September, 1858 Crystal Palace burned in New York......Oct. 5, 1858 First mail overland from San Francisco reaches St. Louis, twenty-four days eighteen hours in transit......Oct. 9, 1858
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
ter the governor of Kansas.] Gold discovered at Boulder Creek......Jan. 15, 1859 First saw-mill erected on Plum Creek by D. C. Oakes, and lumber furnished for building the town......April 21, 1859 Great influx of gold-seekers......1859 John H. Gregory discovers gold on the north fork of Clear Creek, the richest mine in Colorado, and one of the richest in the world......May 10, 1859 [Gregory, a lazy fellow from Gordon county, Ga., drives a government team from Leavenworth to Fort Laramie in 1858. He sells his claim for $22,000, expecting easily to find another; disappears in 1862, and is never seen again.—Bancroft.] Discovery of silver in Colorado......1859 Pueblo laid off on the site of the old town of Pueblo......1859-60 Increased immigration into Colorado......1860 First school-house erected in Boulder......1860 Act erecting a new territory to be called Colorado......Feb. 28, 1861 [Name suggested by William Gilpin, first governor.] William Gilpin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
ublette and Robert Campbell erect a fort on Laramie Fork, which they name Fort William, since Fort Laramie.......1834 First emigrant train for Oregon and California crosses Wyoming......1841 Foron, ascends and names Fremont's Peak......1842 Mormon pioneers, led by Brigham Young, pass Fort Laramie on their way to Great Salt Lake through South Pass......June 1, 1847 Part of Wyoming is inired by the United States from Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 Fort Laramie transferred to the United States......1849 Fort Bridger sold for $8,000 to the Mormons......1853 Sioux Indian war begins; Lieutenant Grattan and twenty-eight men sent from Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian who had shot a cow of a Mormon emigrant. The Indians refusing to give up the culp1854 Sir George Gore, of Sligo, Ireland, with his private hunting expedition, winters at Fort Laramie, 1854, and with James Bridger as guide travels north to Powder River......1855 Oil is coll
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Wyoming, (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