Mountain View, located near Fort Bridger, was founded in 1891. It is one of the gateways to camping, hiking and fishing in the only major east-to-west mountain range in the United States: the Uinta Range. It also is an excellent base for visitors who want to see one of the nation's largest Mountain Man Rendezvous every Labor Day at nearby Fort Bridger. Complete with period costumes, tomahawk competitions, black powder shoots, and much more, the Fort Bridger Rendezvous is an event for the entire family showing how the early settlers survived on the frontier.
Most of the major Indian-military battles in Wyoming occurred during the 1860s in the Powder River Basin as Northern Plains tribes rebuffed efforts to establish forts in their territory. In August of 1865 troops led by General Patrick Connor attacked a camp of Arapahos at a site that is now a town park in Ranchester. read more
In the 1840s and 50s, nearly a half million pioneers, gold rush Forty-Niners and Pony Express Riders embarked along the Oregon Trail during the greatest overland migration the country has even seen. read more
