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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKE_pinedale-historic-district_Pinedale-WY.html
Mr. John F. Patterson, known as the Founder of Pinedale, proposed establishing a town at this location. He offered to build and stock a general store if local ranchers Charles A. Petersen and Mr. Robert O. Graham each donated five acres for the to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKC_a-pause-on-a-journey_Pinedale-WY.html
On Oct. 16, 1812, the Astorians (Robert Stuart, Ramsay Crooks, Robert McClellan, Joseph Miller, Benjamin Jones, Francis Eclair and Andy Vallee) passed this way and forded Pine Creek near here, the first white men known to have seen it. They were r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKA_the-naming-of-a-lake_Pinedale-WY.html
Sir William Drummond Stewart of Scotland can be called Wyoming's first tourist. Stewart attended every summer rendezvous from 1833 to 1838, during the heyday of the mountain man fur trade. Four of those gatherings took place nearby, at the conflue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PK3_hoback-canyon_Jackson-WY.html
West of this sign is the opening of Hoback Canyon. This canyon first provided a way through the mountains for game and Indians, and later for mountain men and settlers, but the rugged trail was hazardous for horses and wagons. On September 26, 181…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PK2_church-of-st-hubert-the-hunter-and-library_Bondurant-WY.html
The National Register of Historic Places
Wyoming Place No. 390 (Marker Number 390.)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZP_green-river-rendezvous_Daniel-WY.html
From the first big beaver season in 1824 to the last Rendezvous in 1840, the Green River Valley was the center of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. Six of the 16 summer Rendezvous (1833, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1839, 1840) were held here at the confluence o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZO_fort-bonneville_Pinedale-WY.html
In May of 1832, Captain Benjamin Bonneville left Fort Osage, Missouri with an expedition consisting of one hundred and ten men and twenty wagons, headed for the Rocky Mountain West. Upon his arrival in the Green River Valley, he ordered immediate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZN_first-tie-drive-on-green-river_Cora-WY.html
Because timber was scarce in neighboring states along the first transcontinental railroad line, the tie business flourished here and in other Wyoming mountain locations. Ties were cut in winter, stored on the river bank until spring, and floated d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZM_gros-ventre-lodge_Cora-WY.html
This lodge, one of the earliest dude ranches in Wyoming, was built on the hill beyond in 1897 by William (Billy) Wells and operated until 1906. It was name for the Little Gros Ventre (now Tosi Creek) and was known locally as "Dog Ranch: becau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IZL_of-cattle-and-men_Big-Piney-WY.html
You are standing just north of the route taken by thousands of people, cattle and horses migrating west on the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail, starting in 1858. None settled here then. By the late 1870s, cattle from the west…