Wagon trains / Landscape photographs / Expeditions & surveys / Explorers Source :NARA-NWDNS NaraID :57-HS-277 Photographer :Jackson, William Henry Personal Name :N/A Topical Name :N/A Geographical Name :Red Buttes / Bessemer Bend / Oregon Trail Institution Name :N/A United States Geological Survey. Hayden Survey Date :1870 State :WY Country :USA

View of the Red Buttes at what is now known as Bessemer Bend, a notable point of the old Oregon Trail where the Oregon Trail left the North Platte River for the Sweetwater. The approximate location of a massacre of 23 U.S. troopers in 1865, which occured at the same time as the death of Casper Collins at that bridge, for whom the town of Casper was named.

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