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  • Visitors should note that the historic site of Fort Laramie is not to be confused with the modern village called Fort Laramie on the north bank of the Platte, and still less with the large town of Laramie farther south and nearer Cheyenne.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Up yonder to a place called Fort Laramie, to listen to what the white men have to say.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

  • Up yonder to a place called Fort Laramie, to listen to what the white men have to say.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

  • Up yonder to a place called Fort Laramie, to listen to what the white men have to say.

    Betrayed! Patricia Calvert 2002

  • Visitors should note that the historic site of Fort Laramie is not to be confused with the modern village called Fort Laramie on the north bank of the Platte, and still less with the large town of Laramie farther south and nearer Cheyenne.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Visitors should note that the historic site of Fort Laramie is not to be confused with the modern village called Fort Laramie on the north bank of the Platte, and still less with the large town of Laramie farther south and nearer Cheyenne.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • When you submit your article to researchers, they will probably claim that Fort John ought to be called Fort Laramie, but as you will find in my next report, this change did not occur till 1849.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • The treaty negotiated at Fort Laramie failed because the chiefs from those tribes who signed did not understand all its terms, leaders from other tribes especially Sitting Bull refused to sign, and whites did not honor the provisions they disliked.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • The treaty negotiated at Fort Laramie failed because the chiefs from those tribes who signed did not understand all its terms, leaders from other tribes especially Sitting Bull refused to sign, and whites did not honor the provisions they disliked.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • The son of an Army officer at Fort Laramie — who died a Confederate general at Gettysburg — and a Sioux woman, Garnett surfaces repeatedly as an interpreter for the Army or Indian Bureau, as a player in the drama himself and as a witness of crucial events.

    A Sioux War Chief and His Many Enemies Robert M. Utley 2010

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