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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original caption: View of the Red Buttes at what is now known as Bessemer Bend, a notable point of the old Oregon Trail where the Oregon Trail left the North Platte River for the Sweetwater. The approximate location of a massacre of 23 U.S. troopers in 1865, which occurred at the same time as the death of Casper Collins at that bridge, for whom the town of Casper was named.</li></ul></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Henry_Jackson" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Henry Jackson"><span title="American photographer and painter (1843-1942)">William Henry Jackson</span></a>
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1870<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>