Oregon Trail

This shaft stands a few hundred feet from the Grattan stone, and the trader James Bordeaux's account, written out for him by Samuel Smith that night and signed by his men as witnesses, says what came after the fight. Warriors talked of riding to the fort to kill the soldiers there, and he talked them down, while they helped themselves to his store, cattle and horses and kept his people under guard all night. In the morning they broke into the American Fur Company houses and took the annuity goods the government had stored there for them.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Marked by the State of Wyoming 1914

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Laramie National Historic Site — 9.1 mi
  Old Bedlam, the officers' quarters of 1849, survived the auction that scattered the rest of the post; an 1875 Army bridge still crosses the river.
• Register Cliff State Historic Site — 17 mi
  The first camp out of Fort Laramie, where the oldest date on the rock reads 1829 and three emigrants never left.
• Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site — 19 mi
  The clearest wagon ruts on the trail, worn by iron tires and cut deeper by travelers who hacked at the ledge to get their wagons over.

More markers nearby

• The Grattan Fight — steps away
• To All Pioneers — 3.2 mi
• Old Texas Trail — 3.2 mi
• Oregon Trail — 3.5 mi