Exit78 Photo of the Day #70
Fort Caspar – located in modern day Casper, Wyoming – is a reconstruction built in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) based on the diagram of the post, then known as Platte Bridge Station, made by Lieutenant Caspar Collins. After Lieutenant Collins and four troopers were killed after being ambushed less than a mile from the fort, the post was renamed Fort Caspar by special order of Major John Pope. The lieutenant’s last name wasn’t used as there was already a Fort Collins, named for Caspar’s father. (We visited Fort Caspar in 2010)
Officer’s quarters, Fort Caspar restoration, Fort Caspar Museum, Museum, Casper, Wyoming, July 11, 2010 (Pentax K10D)
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
