, 1924-05-29

without any loss to the whites. Bat
tie creek, Battle and Squaw noun
tains were named from this fight,
but Mrs. Adams Bakers daugh-
in 1849."- Mrs. Joseph T. Jones,
daughter Of MI. and Mrs. George
Honnold, among the first settlers in
the Snake river country.
BENNETT. is, R. 81. (See
Bennett Peak.
BENNETT PEAK.-Black noun
tain al the junction Of Brush creek
where 1t enters the North Platte
river Is called Bennett's Peak after
Ed. Bennett, a ranchman who used
to be in company with c. w. Bur-
dick OF Cheyenne. - w. e. T1lton,
Saratoga.
BENTON. - Named for Senator
Thomas Benton of Missouri, father
in-law of General J.. c. Fremont.
East of .Rawlins and West OF Fort
Fred Steele, Was q terminus OF
the Union Pacific Railway on the
north side, a tent city which for two
or three months in the fall Of 1868
had a population of severa! thous-
and people OF all kinds and condi-
tions, a characteristic wide open
town. The Mushroom town had a
mayor and city council. A new
townsite, 1923, is called Benton, an
oil camp about one mile east Of the
, 1868 Benton site. Mr.. Robert w.
Galbraith now 1920 at Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, was one Of the %unfortun-
ate young men that was stationed at
Benton" Wyoming, while the town
was used as a terminal of the Union
Pacific Railroad from August to
November 1868, Foreman Locomo-
tive Department and my time was
fully occupied by duties. The most
accurate description / have ever read
Of hat wicked city is by Sabin in
a book called Desert Dust"
Benton was the western head
quarters of the construction forces
of the Union Pacific until late in
1868. The town vas a short dis
lance west of the present station of
Fort Steele. 1t was to this point,
Benton. that General Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan and their party
%journeyed on their memorable trip
west in July 1868. 1t was also at
that place where Scuyler Colfax and
Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield.
Massachusetts Republican rested be-
fore taking the train on their re-
turn from an extended trip in Cali
fornia thai year.
BIG CREEK. - Rises in Sierra
Madre Mountains in Big Creek Lake.
flows Southeast through Big Creek
Park into the North Platte south
east OF the Big Creek ranch, flows
through the ranch. Is so named
from earliest time from the volume
Of water 1t carries.
BRIDGER PAST. IT and 18,
r. SO and 80. A pass in the noun
tains Just east Of Sulphur. discover
ed and used by James Bridger and
through which a the Overland
Trail 1S62-6S.
BRIDGER PASS STATION. "A
stage station at Bridger Pass 1862
6S for the stage and express line.
BRIDGER PEAK.-T. ii, r. Sc.
Named for Major (Jim) Bridger.
BOUNDARY LAKE. - Near the
northern boundary of the twenty
mile limit granted by u. S. Govern
ment to the Union Pacific Railway
in its grant OF land.
BROWNS HlLL.-A small COM
munity OF homesteaders named for
Henry Breckmere, called bible
Brown" Died 1907.
BROWNSVILLE AS the Union
Pacific Railway pushed toward the
West it had its camp followers who
always attempted to obtain the land
where they thought there would be
a terminus to the railroad, control
ing the lots for a townsite and the
prices for their purchase. Browns
Vile was one OF these places where
the forerunners OF the railroad had
decided the next camp would be To-
Gated. This site is at the east side
! OF the North Platte, where in an in
: credibly short time there sprang up
hotels. saloons. eating houses.