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- Robbers Roost Road Ranch and Stagecoach Station, Wyoming Territory, 1885 - Stagecoach lines brought news, mail, and passengers to distant and isolated western towns during the late 19th century. Stops along the route broke up the long, monotonous, and sometimes dangerous journey. This image shows a station located on a route connecting Cheyenne, Wyoming, with the gold fields in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Robbers Roost derived its name from the many robberies in the area.
- 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Robbers Roost Road Ranch and Stagecoach Station, Wyoming Territory, 1885
Stagecoach lines brought news, mail, and passengers to distant and isolated western towns during the late 19th century. Stops along the route broke up the long, monotonous, and sometimes dangerous journey. This image shows a station located on a route connecting Cheyenne, Wyoming, with the gold fields in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Robbers Roost derived its name from the many robberies in the area.
- Wagons Stopped at Road Ranch, near Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory, 1885 - In the 1880s, towns in the western United States that were isolated from river and rail transportation networks relied on freight haulers to supply needed goods. Heavy, product-laden freight wagons were hitched to teams of mules or oxen and pulled to their destination. Skilled drivers--known as teamsters, muleskinners or bullwhackers--navigated these teams safely over mountains and across lonely, open expanses to deliver their cargo.
- 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Wagons Stopped at Road Ranch, near Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory, 1885
In the 1880s, towns in the western United States that were isolated from river and rail transportation networks relied on freight haulers to supply needed goods. Heavy, product-laden freight wagons were hitched to teams of mules or oxen and pulled to their destination. Skilled drivers--known as teamsters, muleskinners or bullwhackers--navigated these teams safely over mountains and across lonely, open expanses to deliver their cargo.