Bear River City, Wyoming

Residence of Ben Hampton, Bear River stage station, Utah Territory (Wyoming)

Bear River City is a ghost town that was briefly a rapidly thrown together railroad town, located approximately ten miles southeast of Evanston, on the Overland Trail and the Emigrant Trail in the Utah Territory.

It is best known for the "Bear River City Riot" that occurred on November 19, 1868.


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