Keywords: Photograph of the Red Buttes 1870.gif 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 http //arcweb archives gov/arc/arch_results_detail jsp pg 1 si 0 st b rp digital nh 15 Department of the Interior General Land Office U S Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories 1870 516886 PD-USGov Covered wagons Natrona County Wyoming Oregon Trail Red Buttes Wilderness Wilderness Areas of the United States |