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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM4_the-pony-express_Cody-WY.html
Young Buffalo Bill Cody started his famous career with the great freighting firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell as a messenger boy. He became a spectacular Pony Express rider with the same firm and road between Red Buttes and Three Crossings, alon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM3_castle-rock_Cody-WY.html
John Colter, famed among the famous breed of "Mountain Men," passed this landmark late in the fall of 1807 while on business for the fur trader Manuel Lisa. Searching for Indians in order to conduct trade, he also hunted salt caves reputedly locat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM2_john-jeremiah-liver-eating-johnston_Cody-WY.html
John Johnston was born of Scotch-English descent in New Jersey in 1824. Johnston, described as a 6'6", 250 pound giant , came west in the early 1840's as a tapper. He began his career in the Medicine Bow mountains of Wyoming, gradually working his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PLZ_the-american-mountain-man_Cody-WY.html
This monument, erected by the Brotherhood of the American Mountain Men, is "dedicated to all Mountain Men known and unknown for their essential part in the opening of the American West." It consists of two busts and six plaques honoring four mount…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFE_life-in-a-fire-tower_Yellowstone-National-Park-WY.html
Beginning in the early 1900s, fire towers were built across the nation to protect the forest resources from uncontrolled wildland fire.These towers were manned by rugged individuals who spent their days alone searching the horizon with binoculars …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFD_mt-washburn-trail_Yellowstone-National-Park-WY.html
After a steady ascent through whitebark pine and fir forest the trail reaches alpine tundra - a wind-scoured world of stunted trees and briefly blooming wildflowers.Mt. Washburn's steep slopes and low groundcover are ideal habitat for bighorn shee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O9R_cistern-spring_Yellowstone-National-Park-WY.html
Hot springs create different water temperature environments for living things. Cistern Spring's brown, orange, and green colors represent species of visible algae and bacteria, each requiring a different temperature environment. Only a handful of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O9Q_echinus_Yellowstone-National-Park-WY.html
Millions of spine-shaped deposits surround Echinus Geyser. Iron, arsenic, manganese, and aluminum are all found in the acidic fountain of water that showers the landscape. With each eruption, these metals help build miniature rust-colored sinter s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O9P_echinus_Yellowstone-National-Park-WY.html
Millions of spine-shaped deposits surround Echinus Geyser. Iron, arsenic, manganese, and aluminum are all found in the acidic fountain of water that showers the landscape. With each eruption, these metals help build miniature rust-colored sinter s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O7S_protection-proves-profitable_Cody-WY.html
This valley has sustained life for thousands of years. Early Native Americans were drawn here to hunt buffalo, elk, deer, moose, sheep and bear. It has always been considered a unique place.The establishment of the nation's first park and timber r…