Trade Card No. 43 from the Arbuckle Coffee Company. "One of a series of 50 cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories". This is a unique and wonderfully illustrated card. On the reverse of the card are a few advertising words for Arbuckle Coffee plus a short history on the state of Wyoming. Chromolithographie Chromolithography out of a scrapbook, 1892, 0,3 x 0,5 inch/76 x 127 mm. Illustrations are bright and clean.

PART of Wyoming, west of the Rocky Mountains, was included in the Oregon country. The lower Green River country about Fort Bridger pertained to Mexico, and became American soil after the treaty of 1848. The Territory of Wyoming was formed from parts of Dakota, Idaho and Utah, in 1868. The first white visitors were the Canadian explorers under Lieut. de la Verendrye who, in 1743-44 ascended the gorges of Wind River. A pair of Illinois trappers and Colter, one of Lewis and Clark's men, spent part of 1804-7 in the Park region, followed by the heroic hunters of the Missouri Fur Company, who were obliged to fight the Indians throughout all these lonely glens. The first settlement was at Fort Laramie in 1834, and in 1842 the famous trapper, James Bridger, erected the log lock-house of Fort Bridger, near Green River, but in 1853 it passed into the hands of the Mormons, who were unwilling to suffer a Gentile stronghold so near to their domain.
The first migration to the Pacific Coast passed across Wyoming in 1834. The first agricultural settlers were the Mormons, sent by their church to occupy the Green river valley in 1853. The Indians waged almost continuous warfare against the immigrants and killed them by hundreds.
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