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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O6B_wild-sheep-and-wild-fire_Shoshoni-WY.html
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep once roamed much of the western United States. Now, these magnificent animals are found in only a fraction of their historic range. Human expansion, disease, market hunting and fire suppression all contributed to the d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NL4_site-of-original-boysen-dam_Shoshoni-WY.html
      Mule teams hauled the materials for the original Boysen Dam, built here in the early 1900s by Asmus Boysen to provide power for his gold and copper mining interests in this area. A few years later when the Burlington Railroad built throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NKK_boysen-dam-and-reservoir-today_Shoshoni-WY.html
In 1952, dignitaries dedicated a new dam built by the Bureau of Reclamation, one and half miles upstream from Asmus Boysen's historic dam.Construction began with blasting of a tunnel to divert the river and included relocation of both the highway …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NKF_geology-of-the-wind-river-canyon_Shoshoni-WY.html
      The Wind River Canyon provides a unique slice through geologic time. While driving through the canyon, you can see rocks that were deposited when life was beginning and when Wyoming was covered by a sea with a tropical climate similar to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C7Y_wind-river-canyon_Shoshoni-WY.html
Boysen Dam, completed in 1951, marks the southern margin of the east-west trending Owl Creek Mountains and the Wind River Canyon. Drained by the north flowing Wind River, the canyon is 14 miles long, 1.3-2 miles wide and 2,400 feet deep where it c…
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