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Begun as a trading post to serve overland travelers, Fort Bridger, located in southwest Wyoming, 35 miles east of Evanston off Interstate 80, was first in use by 1842. Owned and operated by mountain men Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez, it became a military post in 1857 and remained active until 1890. Now a state historic site, the fort has many military-era buildings, plus a reconstruction of Bridger’s original trading post.