Note 5 — Group II. BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA.

Fort Laramie, first called Fort William (Sublette), built by Robert Campbell about 1835, since named from the Laramie Fork, near which it stands. Its walls were ranges of adobe houses, in the Spanish style, with bastions at the corners. The house tops or roof formed a banquette, on which, again, was set a row of palisades.

Bent's Fort, on the Arkansas, established by Charles Bent, was the third of these remote posts, for which the above description will suffice.