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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UR8_mother-featherlegs-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Here lies Mother Featherlegs Shepard. So called, as in her ruffled pantalettes she looked like a feather-legged chicken in a high wind. She was a road house ma'am. An outlaw confederate, she was murdered by "Dangerous Dick Davis The Terrapin" in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UR7_rawhide-buttes-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Rawhide Buttes, visible west of this point, once served as a favorite camping spot for Indians and fur trappers. Several different tales explain the origin of the name. One account holds that this locale served as a departure point from which trap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UR5_inyan-kara-historical_Moorcroft-WY.html
Though rising only 600 ft above the floor of the plains, Inyan Kara Mountain stands
as one of the most important cultural and historical landmarks of the Black Hills. Inyan
Kara forms an important part of the sacred geography of the Black Hills …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQY_american-legion-ferdinand-branstetter-post-no-1-historical_Lusk-WY.html
The American Legion, founded at Paris, France in 1919, holds a long and enviable record of service to the nation and to the veterans of the nation's wars. Covering those formative years of rapid growth, Legion records are not always exact, but it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UQX_redwood-water-tank-historical_Lusk-WY.html
Redwood Water Tank was built to furnish water for the Fremont, Elkhorn, Missouri Valley Railroad steam engines. This line which was part of the Northwestern Line and later became the Chicago Northwestern Railroad that came to Lusk on July 13, 1886…
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…