VIRGINIA CITY — On Monday, nearly a score of wagons will begin a trip on the Bozeman Trail from Fort Laramie in southern Wyoming. Their destination is Virginia City, where they are scheduled to arrive ...
It is meant to commemorate the Bozeman Trail, pioneered by John Bozeman in 1863 as a shortcut to the gold fields of Montana. The heyday of the trail was brief 1864 to 1866 and because it intruded on ...