Fort Bonneville (Wyo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Geographic subdivision usage: Wyoming Fort Bonneville
Variant(s): Bonneville, Fort (Wyo.)
Bonneville’s Folly (Wyo.)
Fort Nonsense (Wyo.)
See also: Fortification --Wyoming
Found in: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Wyoming State Archives for Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming. Records, 1927-1961 (Fort Bonneville)
Encyc. of historic forts, 1988: p. 855 (Fort Bonneville (Fort Nonsense); Capt. Ben. L.E. Bonneville, French born grad. of West Point on leave of absence from U.S. Army, with financial backing of several officers of J.J. Astor’s American Fur Co., org. a company of his own; May 1, 1832 set out from Fort Osage on the Missouri; in what is now Sublette Co., he and his men spent several weeks constructing Fort Bonneville, a strong stockade, with blockhouses at two diagonally opposite angles, to enclose a few cabins; shortly after the post was completed he evacuated it; because of his waste of considerable effort building short-lived Fort Bonneville, derisively called Fort Nonsense and "Bonneville’s Folly")
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Guide to the Wyoming Historical Landmark Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: RG0200
Abstract
Correspondence, minutes, biennial reports and other documents created by the Wyoming Historical Landmark Commission.
Dates:
1921; 1927-1961