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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQV_cheyenne-deadwood-trail-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Here you stand on the Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail over which freight wagons and stagecoaches traveled between Cheyenne and the Black Hills gold mining area from 1876 to 1877. One of these stages may be seen in the Lusk museum. The nearby monument is a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQP_texas-trail-1866-1897-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Along this trail passed herds of cattle from distant Texas to replace in Wyoming and Montana the fast vanishing buffalo and build civilization on the northwestern plains
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQO_monuments-to-wyoming-history-historical_Lusk-WY.html
First in the Nation
Interested residents of Wyoming have long been marking, preserving, and protecting its important historic sites. Groups such as the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Wyoming Oregon Trail Commission, inspired by Ez…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQA_cows-wildlife-and-gold-historical_Lusk-WY.html
The Cheyenne River drainage system has been the locus of human activity for thousands of years. Native Americans used the corridor in search of wild game and wild plants resources. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1875, miners, gambl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQ9_along-the-cheyenne-to-deadwood-stage-hat-creek-stage-station-historical_Lusk-WY.html
In 1874, the U.S. Army discovered gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The resulting gold rush required a stage line that could carry gold from the remote mining town of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, to Cheyenne, a commercial center on the Union…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQ7_hat-creek-stage-station-historical_Lusk-WY.html
1876 - 1887
In memory of the pioneers who operated the stage line and those who traveled the old Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail
Erected on the site of the Old Fort Hat Creek by...
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQ1_along-the-cheyenne-to-deadwood-stage-robbers-roost-historical_Lusk-WY.html
The Dreaded Crossing
Along the Cheyenne-Deadwood stage route, stories still are told of outlaws and buried gold. Bandits haunted the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage line during the gold boom that began in Deadwood in 1876. By the end of 1877, gold see…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQ0_stewards-of-the-grassland-prairies-historical_Lusk-WY.html
"Vast seas of grass as far as the eye can see", wrote the migrants traveling west in the 1840s. Before the plowing of "America's bread basket" native grassland prairies made up more than 500 million acres in the central region of the U.S. and Cana…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS4Q_redwood-water-tank_Lusk-WY.html
This Redwood Water Tank was built by the Wyoming Central Railway in 1886. It was first filled by a windmill, then by other types of pumps. It stored water for the steam engines that pulled the trains. It is one of only six remaining in the nation.…