Fort Fred Steele

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Fort Fred Steele (Image by Bob Leathers). 2024)
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Fort Fred Steele (Image by Bob Leathers). 2024)

1882

LIEUT. FRANK BAKER - FORT FRED STEELE
WAR DEPARTMENT, January 8, 1875.
The Secretary of War has the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives a memorial to Congress of Lieut. Frank Baker, Thirteenth United States Infantry, asking to be relieved from accountability for certain subsistence funds which were stolen from him while on duty as acting commissary of subsistence at Fort Fred Steele, Wyoming Territory. The report of the board of survey accompanying the memorial, sets forth the facts in the case, and the relief prayed for by Lieutenant Baker is respectfully recommended.
WM. W. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War

1911

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Postcard. Union Pacific Train on Fort Steele Bridge, Wyo.. (Postcard from Daryl Billings. 2024)
Dear John, I rode over that bridge last night. I was glad when I was over it. We are having a regular blizzard in Wyoming today. Love to all. (Signed Aunt Patti. Cheyenne, Wyo. Dec. 22, 1911)

1922

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Aero Filling Station at Fort Steele, Wyoming (Postcard from Daryl Billings)
Fort Fred Steele was commissioned on June 30, 1868 and abandoned on August 7, 1886. When the Fort was abandoned the grounds and buildings were turned over to the locals in hopes the Fort remained a town.  In 1922 the Lincoln Highway was realigned to pass through Fort Steele. One of the businesses at Fort Steele was the Aero Filling Station. 

1926

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Fort Steel Gas Station and Motel. (About 1926) (University of Wyoming - American Heritage Center)