Trains seem to hold a fascination for many people. Maybe it’s the power of the locomotives or all of the history attached to them, and the role that railroads played in the shaping of America. Or maybe it’s nostalgia. Who didn’t have a model railroad when they were a little boy? Well, I didn’t, but […]
During the Indian Wars in the 1800s, Wyoming was a battleground as the Plains Indian tribes fought to preserve their lands and their way of life from ever increasing encroachment by white settlers. In response to repeated attacks on wagon trains, in 1867 the United States Army built Fort Fetterman eleven miles northeast of present-day […]