Penfold has been working to map, mark and honor the route for more than 20 years, partnering with the Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association in Wyoming and his friend Howard Boggess.

In 1863, mountain man John Jacobs and partner John M. Bozeman determined to find a better route connecting the Oregon Trail to new gold-strike country in what would later become Montana.

The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of ...

SHERIDAN — The efforts to designate the Bozeman Trail as a National Historic Trail has continued in recent months with outreach to hundreds of landowners, governments and Native American tribes ...

The Bozeman Trail descended from the high plateau to the Yellowstone River on the east side of Bridger Creek. The trail crossed the creek and then continued one mile to the Yellowstone.