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unusual facts about Bridger


Bridger, Montana

It is part of the Billings, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area.


Belfry, Montana

Approximately 80 students attend Belfry schools, including children from Bearcreek, Montana, Bridger, Montana, and Clark, Wyoming.

Clarks Fork Yellowstone River

It passes Belfry, Bridger, Fromberg, and Edgar, and joins the Yellowstone approximately 2 mi (3 km) southeast of Laurel.

Eagles Nest Wilderness

In 1854, Sir George Gore hired Bridger as a hunting guide out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Fort Bridger

In 1845, Lanford Hastings published a guide entitled The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California, which advised California emigrants to leave the Oregon Trail, at Fort Bridger, pass through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile waterless drive, loop around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoin the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass).

Daguerreotypist John Wesley Jones visited the garrison in 1851 and Samuel C. Mills, traveling with the Army bound for Utah, produced at least one image of Fort Bridger in 1858.

Freddie Scrace

Bridger is the founder of Millennium Manoeuvres dance show which Freddie performed in twice at the Hall for Cornwall in 2006 and 2008 respectively.

Nathan Bridger

Bridger's backstory claims that he had served in the U.S. Navy for over thirty years; during which time he served with William Noyce and Manilow Crocker.

Overland Trail

In 1851 U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Captain Howard Stansbury returning east from an expedition to the Salt Lake Valley described a route from Fort Bridger via the Bitter Creek valley and Laramie Plains to the North Platte River.

The Lawless Nineties

Set in the 1890s, undercover federal agents John Tipton (John Wayne) and Bridger (Lane Chandler) heads for Crocket City Wyoming to supervise the vote on whether to join the Union.


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