Fort Bridger Oregon Trail Emigrant Cache — Uinta County

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Fort Bridger Oregon Trail Emigrant Cache — Uinta County

Lost Treasure WY • Uinta County County
Description
Fort Bridger legend of emigrant trade specie near Jim Bridger's 1843 trading post — where the Mormon Trail branched toward Salt Lake and Sublette's Cutoff saved seventy-five miles at the cost of desert water.
Historical Notes
Jim Bridger and Pierre Louis Vasquez built Fort Bridger on Black's Fork of the Green River in 1843 to trade with Indians and sell supplies to Oregon Trail emigrants. Bridger's 1850 pass discovery shortened the trail by sixty-one miles. Emigrants jokingly called Fort Laramie "Camp Sacrifice" for discarded furniture; Fort Bridger was a rougher shack town but still a critical landmark before the Bear River and Soda Springs country. Coordinates mark Fort Bridger State Historic Site. Utah War and Mormon occupation history overlay mountain-man trade folklore imagining buried peltry proceeds and emigrant strongboxes.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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