Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie National Historic Site, located in present-day Goshen County, Wyoming in the United States, was a significant 19th century trading post and later a military outpost of the United States Army. Founded in the 1830s during the fur trade, it was taken over by the Army in 1849 and emerged as one most important centers of white settlement in the American West. During the middle 19th century, it was a primary stopping point on the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail and was, along with Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River, the most significant economic hub of white commerce in the region.