In 1849, the United States Army purchased the fort as a post to protect the many wagon trains of migrant travelers on the Oregon Trail, and the subsidiary northern emigrant trails which split off further west. This fort was named Fort John, after John Sarpy, a partner in the company. The American Fur Company hired workers from Santa Fe to construct an adobe fort to replace Fort William.

Lupton about a mile away from Fort William.

Starting as early as the fall of 1840, the American Fur Company began competing with the newly-established Fort Platte, built by L.P. After the Rendezvous of 1836, it was sold to the American Fur Company, which still had a virtual monopoly on the western fur-trade. In the spring of 1835, Sublette sold the fort to Thomas Fitzpatrick, a local fur-trader. Along with Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River, the trading post and its supporting industries and businesses were the most significant economic hub of commerce in the region.įort William was founded by William Sublette and his partner Robert Campbell in 1834. The site was located east of the long climb leading to the best and lowest crossing-point over the Rocky Mountains at South Pass and became a popular stopping-point for migrants on the Oregon Trail. The fort was founded as a private trading-post in the 1830s to service the overland fur-trade in 1849, it was purchased by the United States Army. They joined in the upper Platte River Valley in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Fort Laramie (founded as Fort William and known for a while as Fort John) was a significant 19th-century trading-post, diplomatic site, and military installation located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte rivers. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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