Bear River City, Wyoming

Bear River City is a ghost town that was briefly, 1867–1868, a rapidly thrown together railroad town. It was ocated 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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