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North Platte River, at Fort Fred Steel.

North Platte River, at Fort Fred Steel.

Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Observation Point - National Parks Gallery

North Observation Point - National Parks Gallery

Scotts Bluff National Monument. This view from the North Observation Point shows the Nebraska landscape carved by waterways. The North Platte River is seen in the far distance, and the Gering Irrigation Canal ... More

Grand Canyon of the North Platte River, Wyo., U.S.A

Grand Canyon of the North Platte River, Wyo., U.S.A

D5123 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10606. Copyright 1900 by B.L. Singley.

Scotts Bluff NM Badlands - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Scotts Bluff NM Badlands - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

These impassible clay formations between the bluff and the North Platte River pushed the emigrants on the Oregon and California Trails south.

North Platte Project, Wyoming-Nebraska - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

North Platte Project, Wyoming-Nebraska - Vintage map, Norman B. Levent...

Public domain scan of a railway map, transportation, industrial development, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Kingsley Dam, North Platte River / U.S.D.A. Extension Service photo by Edwin C. Hunton.

Kingsley Dam, North Platte River / U.S.D.A. Extension Service photo by...

Photograph shows Lake McConaughy and the Kingsley Dam, one of the largest hydraulic earthfill dams, with view of walkway to the spillway tower.

View east over the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains

View east over the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains

SL4-138-3875 (February 1974) --- A color oblique photograph looking east over the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. This view covers a portion of the States of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. A Skylab 4 crewme... More

S39-604-015 - STS-039 - STS-39 earth observations

S39-604-015 - STS-039 - STS-39 earth observations

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing STS-39 earth observations. Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) STS-39 Date Taken: 5/1/1991 0:00 Categor... More

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming. It was originally constructed between 1905 and 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several times since. Construction of the dam created Pathfinder Reservoir, which provides water storage for 226,000 acres of irrigation in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as recreational opportunities for residents and visitors

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The dam is named for General John Charles Fremont, who was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the West" after exploring the area in 1842 Cre... More

Part of Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming. It was originally constructed between 1905 and 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several times sinc. Construction of the dam created Pathfinder Reservoir, which provides water storage for 226,000 acres of irrigation in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as recreational opportunities for residents and visitors

Part of Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, south...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming. It was originally constructed between 1905 and 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several times sinc. Construction of the dam created Pathfinder Reservoir, which provides water storage for 226,000 acres of irrigation in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as recreational opportunities for residents and visitors

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The dam is named for General John Charles Fremont, who was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the West" after exploring the area in 1842 Cre... More

Part of Pathfinder Reservoir, created by the Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming. The dam was originally constructed between 1905 and 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several times since. The Pathfinder Reservoir it created provides water storage for 226,000 acres of irrigation in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as recreational opportunities for residents and visitors

Part of Pathfinder Reservoir, created by the Pathfinder Dam, a masonry...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The dam is named for General John Charles Fremont, who was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the West" after exploring the area in 1842 Cre... More

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming. It was originally constructed between 1905 and 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several times sinc. Construction of the dam created Pathfinder Reservoir, which provides water storage for 226,000 acres of irrigation in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as recreational opportunities for residents and visitors

Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The dam is named for General John Charles Fremont, who was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the West" after exploring the area in 1842 Cre... More

Distant view of the Alcova Reservoir, created by the damming of the North Platte River near the town of Alcova in Natrona County, Wyoming, in 1937. The reservoir covers 2,470 surface acres. Sailboating and water skiing in summer and ice fishing in winter attract many visitors each year

Distant view of the Alcova Reservoir, created by the damming of the No...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

STS100-713-005 - STS-100 - Earth observation image taken during STS-100.

STS100-713-005 - STS-100 - Earth observation image taken during STS-10...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation image taken during the STS-100 mission from Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105. Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) STS-1... More

STS100-713-006 - STS-100 - Earth observation image taken during STS-100.

STS100-713-006 - STS-100 - Earth observation image taken during STS-10...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation image taken during the STS-100 mission from Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105. Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) STS-1... More

S112E06422 - STS-112 - Earth Observations taken by the STS-112 crew

S112E06422 - STS-112 - Earth Observations taken by the STS-112 crew

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observations taken by the STS-112 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis while docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Subject Terms: ... More

Mexican Hill - National parks scenic trails

Mexican Hill - National parks scenic trails

These deep ruts through solid rock were cut by emigrant wagon trains descending from the plateau to the river bottom on the North Platte River.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Dan Long, of Cheyenne, Wyo., the

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Dan Long, of Cheyenne, Wyo., the

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Dan Long, of Cheyenne, Wyo., the officer in charge of a team of soldiers assigned to assist the town of Saratoga, Wyo., with flood mitigation, surveys the flood waters of the North Platte Rive... More

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., left, and Pfc. Robert

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., left, and Pfc. Robert

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., left, and Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., help move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. The pair are among more than 40 soldiers and airmen of the ... More

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie,

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie,

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie, Wyo., left, and Wyoming Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joe Beneke, of Cheyenne, Wyo., help move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011.... More

Scotts Bluff Saddle Rock - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Scotts Bluff Saddle Rock - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Scotts Bluff National Monument. This view of Saddle Rock is looking east from the Observation Point parking lot. The narrow buttress of rock is 4,659 feet above sea level and 780 feet above the North Platte Riv... More

The North Platte River cuts through the Rocky Mountain foothills on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The river runs through Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska on its way to join the main Platte River

The North Platte River cuts through the Rocky Mountain foothills on th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

One of two dozen or so silhouetted jackalope details on the Jackalope Bridge over the North Platte River in Douglas, Wyoming

One of two dozen or so silhouetted jackalope details on the Jackalope ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The people of Douglas are proud of Wyoming's "Official Mythological Creature," the jackalope. It's a cross between a jackrabbit and an... More

Dusk on Jackalope Bridge over the North Platte River in Douglas, Wyoming

Dusk on Jackalope Bridge over the North Platte River in Douglas, Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The people of Douglas are proud of Wyoming's "Official Mythological Creature," the jackalope. It's a cross between a jackrabbit and an... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The North Platte cuts through three states: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, on its way to the main Platte River

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

A headstone at Fort Caspar in Casper, Wyoming, that explains the origin of the name of the fort

A headstone at Fort Caspar in Casper, Wyoming, that explains the origi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony ... More

Fall along the North Platte River near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fall along the North Platte River near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The North Platte cuts through three states: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, on its way to the main Platte River

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

A reconstruction in Casper, Wyoming, of the Guinard Bridge at Fort Caspar Museum, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the transcontinental telegraph trail corridor in Casper, Wyoming

A reconstruction in Casper, Wyoming, of the Guinard Bridge at Fort Cas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army, named after Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army lieutenant who was kil... More

View of the North Platte River on an autumn day at the A Bar A guest ranch, near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

View of the North Platte River on an autumn day at the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The North Platte cuts through three states: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, on its way to the main Platte River

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The North Platte cuts through three states: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, on its way to the main Platte River

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

An everyday soldier's garb and possessions inside a cabin at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the transcontinental telegraph trail corridor in Casper, Wyoming

An everyday soldier's garb and possessions inside a cabin at Fort Casp...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army, named after Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army lieutenant who was kil... More

A settler's wagon at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the transcontinental telegraph trail corridor in Casper, Wyoming

A settler's wagon at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post l...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army, named after Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army lieutenant who was kil... More

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, near Guernsey, Wyoming

A preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wagon wheels, animals, and trudging settlers heading westward in the mid-1800s wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandst... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

A bald eagle soars above the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A bald eagle soars above the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, take a break near the entrance to "Fort Boettcher," the guest-ranch portion of Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") The cowboys spend most of their time at the working cattle-ranch portion of the operation

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

Cowhand Scott McKay, his horse Hays, and his dog, Ty, near one of seveal streams on the Park Range Ranch in Colorado's North Park. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks")

Cowhand Scott McKay, his horse Hays, and his dog, Ty, near one of seve...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

A bald eagle soars above the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A bald eagle soars above the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, pause at the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks")

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Rocks above Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir in Natrona County, Wyoming. It is from here that visitors get the best view of the dam and the disparate water levels on the North Platte River, the calm reservoir at damtop level, and the rushing river below

Rocks above Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir in Natrona County, Wyoming. I...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Owner John Kukral lands a trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

Owner John Kukral lands a trout in the North Platte River at Park Rang...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Natrona County, Wyoming. This was the point of the last crossing by Oregon, Mormon, and California Trail emigrants of that looping, winding river, which comes up from Nebraska, curves over what is now the city of Casper, and dives southward toward Colorado

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Na...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Through trial and error, the emigrants had found that this was the least dangerous point to cross the wild and unpredictable river bef... More

Owner John Kukral displays, and soon will release, a trout caught in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom rod made of long, thin,highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

Owner John Kukral displays, and soon will release, a trout caught in t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross one of several small streams at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Damtop reservoir view of the Pathfinder Dam of the North Platte River in Natrona County, Wyoming

Damtop reservoir view of the Pathfinder Dam of the North Platte River ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Natrona County, Wyomingl this was the point of the last crossing by Oregon, Mormon, and California Trail emigrants of that looping, winding river, which comes up from Nebraska, curves over what is now the city of Casper, and dives southward toward Colorado. Through trial and error, the emigrants had found that this was the least dangerous point to cross the wild and unpredictable river before Mormon entrepreneurs created a ferry over the river in 1847. Four decades later, this place became the townsite of Bessemer, which its creators envisioned as the "Queen City of the West" after the discovery of oil throughout the valley. But the railroad went to Casper instead, and the town dried up

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Na...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Natrona County, Wyoming. This was the point of the last crossing by Oregon, Mormon, and California Trail emigrants of that looping, winding river, which comes up from Nebraska, curves over what is now the city of Casper, and dives southward toward Colorado

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Na...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Through trial and error, the emigrants had found that this was the least dangerous point to cross the wild and unpredictable river bef... More

Cows in brush along the North Platte River at the working cattle-ranch operation at Park Range Ranch, adjacent to its guest ranch for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner in Jackson County, Colorado's, North Park

Cows in brush along the North Platte River at the working cattle-ranch...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The lodge and a ring of guest cabins adjacent to the working cattle-ranch portion of the operation, are part of what the ranch calls "... More

Rocks above Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir in Natrona County, Wyoming. It is from here that visitors get the best view of the dam and the disparate water levels on the North Platte River, the calm reservoir at damtop level, and the rushing river below

Rocks above Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir in Natrona County, Wyoming. I...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Natrona County, Wyoming. This was the point of the last crossing by Oregon, Mormon, and California Trail emigrants of that looping, winding river, which comes up from Nebraska, curves over what is now the city of Casper, and dives southward toward Colorado

Bessemer Bend, a most significant turn of the North Platte River in Na...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Through trial and error, the emigrants had found that this was the least dangerous point to cross the wild and unpredictable river bef... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks")

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks")

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Park Range Ranch owner John Kukral displays, and soon will release, a trout he caught in the North Platte River at the ranch, which includes a working cattle operation and a guest ranch where he welcomes his fishing, hunting, and other friends in North Park, Colorado

Park Range Ranch owner John Kukral displays, and soon will release, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mr. Kukral fishes with a custom rod made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks")

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Co... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson Coun... More

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross one of several small streams at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Success for one of these fishers on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Success for one of these fishers on the North Platte River at the A Ba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Success for one of these fishers on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Success for one of these fishers on the North Platte River at the A Ba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series... More

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga, Carbon County, WY

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga,...

Significance: The Pick Bridge features one of the longer simple spans of the county-built trusses. It is an important early example of its type and one of only two of its type remaining in use in Wyoming today... More

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga, Carbon County, WY

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga,...

Significance: The Pick Bridge features one of the longer simple spans of the county-built trusses. It is an important early example of its type and one of only two of its type remaining in use in Wyoming today... More

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga, Carbon County, WY

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga,...

Significance: The Pick Bridge features one of the longer simple spans of the county-built trusses. It is an important early example of its type and one of only two of its type remaining in use in Wyoming today... More

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga, Carbon County, WY

Pick Bridge, Spanning North Platte River on County Road 508, Saratoga,...

Significance: The Pick Bridge features one of the longer simple spans of the county-built trusses. It is an important early example of its type and one of only two of its type remaining in use in Wyoming today... More

North Platts, near Red Buttes. Wyoming stereoscope card, 19th century.

North Platts, near Red Buttes. Wyoming stereoscope card, 19th century.

Wyoming stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Col. Steve Mount, of Torrington, Wyo., the director

Col. Steve Mount, of Torrington, Wyo., the director

Col. Steve Mount, of Torrington, Wyo., the director of joint operations for the Wyoming National Guard, surveys the flood waters of the North Platte River, in Saratoga, Wyo., June 9. The Wyoming National Guard ... More

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie,

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie,

Wyoming Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Garcia, of Laramie, Wyo., left, and Wyoming Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Joe Beneke, of Cheyenne,Wyo., help move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. ... More

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Sgt. Brad Lowry, of Laramie, Wyo., helps move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. He is among more than 40 soldiers and airmen of the Wyoming National Guard who responded to Carbon County, ... More

North Platts, near Red Buttes. Wyoming stereoscope card, 19th century.

North Platts, near Red Buttes. Wyoming stereoscope card, 19th century.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga,

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga,

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011, passing sandbags to members of the Wyoming Smokebusters, a firefighting squad run by the Wyoming Department of Corrections. He is a... More

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. He is among more than 40 soldiers and Airmen of the Wyoming National Guard who responded to Carbon Coun... More

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. He is among more than 40 soldiers and airmen of the Wyoming National Guard who responded to Carbon Coun... More

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga,

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga,

Spc. Bill Spaulding, of Rawlins, Wyo., works in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011, passing sandbags to members of the Wyoming Smokebusters, a firefighting squad run by the Wyoming Department of Corrections. He is a... More

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags

Pfc. Robert Scully, of Cheyenne, Wyo., helps move sandbags into position in Saratoga, Wyo., June 10, 2011. He is among more than 40 soldiers and airmen of the Wyoming National Guard who responded to Carbon Coun... More

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