Fort William was built in 1834; about 1841 it was replaced with an adobe fort and renamed Fort John, eventually being called Fort Laramie. In 1849 the trading fort became a military outpost until it was abandoned in 1890. The site is in Goshen County, Wyoming, across the Platte River from the town of Fort Laramie.

"A Bison book"--Spine. Reprint. Originally published: Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark, 1938.

Fur Trade Post : The First Fort on the Laramie ; Fur-Traders and Missionaries, 1836-1840 ; Rival Posts : Fort Platte and Fort John, 1840-1845 ; The Coming of The First Emigrants, 1841-1845 ; Last Years as a Private Trading-Post, 1846-1849 -- Military Post : Fort Laramie Becomes a Military Post, 1849 ; America on Wheels, 1850-1851; The Great Fort Laramie Treaty Council, 1851; The Emigrant Tide, 1852-1855 ; The Grattan and the Harney Massacres, 1854-1855 ; From Handcart to Pony Express, 1856-1860 ; The Cheyenne and the Utah Expeditions ; The Civil War and the Uprising of the Plains Indians ; War and Peace, 1865-1869 ; The Fight for the Black Hills ; Last Years ; Appendixes.