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The Trabing Station or Crazy Woman Crossing is a historic place on the Bozeman Trail, in Johnson County, Wyoming, about twenty miles southeast of Buffalo. Crazy Woman Crossing is significant as the site of the Battle of Crazy Woman, a skirmish during the Red Cloud's War in 1866. In 1878, August Trabing opened a store nearby to serve travelers on the Bozeman Trail. This was the first store in Johnson County. Crazy Woman Crossing is located at the point where Trabing Road crosses Crazy Woman Creek ==Bozeman Trail== In the spring 1863, John Bozeman and his associates scouted for a direct route from the goldfields at Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming to connect with the Oregon Trail, which was then the major passage to the West Coast. The Bozeman Trail followed many north-south trails the American Indians had used since prehistoric times to travel through Powder River country. On July 6, 1863, forty-six wagons, eighty-nine men and an unspecified number of women and children crossed the North Platte at Deer Creek (present-day Glenrock, Wyoming) and became the first wagon train to try the new trail. After crossing the North Platte River, the first three major river crossings on the Bozeman Trail were Powder River Crossing, Crazy Woman Crossing, and Clear Creek Crossing (present-day Buffalo, Wyoming). 〔(Bozeman Trail in Wyoming MPS )〕 Between 1864 and 1868, fewer than a thousand people used the Bozeman Trail because of the danger of Indian attacks. One Bozeman Trail emigrant was Ellen Fletcher, and she left a series of diary and notes which described her experiences on trail during the summer of 1866. She provides an early description of the Crazy Woman Crossing: "Camped at "Crazy Woman's Fork." It was a beautiful spot near the stream, in a large grove of trees. The men built large campfires all around the wagons. It was a pretty sight, the circular correll (corral) of white topped wagons and tents scattered here and there, the blazing fires shining forth through the trees, the busy men and women hurrying to and fro, and the quiet moon looking down over it all. A large tree, bent over like an arch, crowns our wagon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trabing Station-Crazy Woman Crossing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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