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East of Torrington, near the Wyoming/Nebraska state line, is the camp site of Robert Stuart and his party of Astorians. They were the men who laid out and first traveled the route from the West Coast to St. Louis, which later became known as the Oregon Trail. Leaving Astoria, John Jacob Astor’s fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River, the Astorians got as far as present-day Torrington by December, 1812. According to Stuart’s diary, the party constructed a small shack and spent the rest of the winter on the bank of the North Platte River.
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