Some Gave All: Ft. Laramie Wyoming

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Veterans Memorial, Ft. Laramie Wyoming

This town park in the small Wyoming town of Ft. Laramie (just outside of the Ft. Laramie National Historic Site) serves as an all wars memorial for residents from the area.

The memorial includes the names of all of the people from Ft. Laramie who have served in the military, as well as those who are residents of the small town.

This bell is the bell from the old schoolhouse in Ft. Laramie, and was placed here as a memorial to it.

The memorial includes a World War Two era 81mm mortar.

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Ft. Halleck-Ft. Laramie Road, Rock River Wyoming.

A memorial just north of Rock River Wyoming commemorating the Frontier era Ft. Halleck to Ft. Laramie Road in southern Wyoming.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887

This post is somewhat off topic here, but this is a marker for the Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail. The marker is on the old state highway, but is visible in terms of its location from the present Interstate Highway. It's north of Cheyenne.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.