[175]D. J. Louck, “Journal,” State Historian’s file, Laramie, Wyoming.
[176]Helen F. Sanders, op. cit., p. 313.
[177]Howard R. Briggs, Westward America (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942), p. 276.
[178]Ibid., pp. 279-80. In 1862, Granville Stuart collected a herd and drove them to Bannock. Conrad Kohrs had a butcher shop there at that time.
[179]Dorothy Gardiner, West of the River (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1941), p. 319.
Forts were located chiefly with an eye to the protection of travel. Some of the principal ones—Cook, on Judith River, Montana; Reno; Phil Kearney; C. F. Smith; and Casper in Wyoming—were built in 1866. D. A. Russell near Cheyenne, Fort Shaw on Sun River, and Fort Buford were established in 1867. Fort Laramie was built in 1849; Fort Bridger, in 1858; Fort Stambaugh at South Pass, 1869; Fort Steele on North Platte Crossing, 1868; and Fort Assiniboine near Havre, 1879.
[180]Granville Stuart, op. cit. Other prominent stockmen were C. D. Duncan, Robert Coburn, N. J. Dovenspeck, Amos Snyder, Adolf Baro, W. C. and G. P. Burnett, Pat Dunlevy, James Dempsey, Chas. Ranges, Edward Regan, N. W. McCaulley, and F. E. Lawrence.
[181]Dan E. Clark, op. cit., p. 596.
[182]Helen F. Sanders, op. cit., p. 316.
[183]Nathaniel P. Langford, The Discovery of Yellowstone Park, p. 181.