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Hello Wyoming!

From the National Parks Service:

Crossroads of a Nation Moving West

This “grand old post,” established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories. Indians, trappers, traders, missionaries, emigrants, gold seekers, soldiers, cowboys and homesteaders would leave their mark on a place that would become famous in the American West.

Read more and find out when the fort’s open here.

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