Life on camp was rough and never a consistant stay. People built their own homes and had to gather their own food. People were always on the move, because there was never a time when they could stay to long. When winter came around people packed up their wares, took down the shacks, and would follow along a newly-laid track. As they moved on they divided prospective towns into lots, which carried emigrants west. July 4, 1867 Greniville Dodge picked a location in Wyoming territory calling it Cheyenne. They called this the division point for the Union Pacific.
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