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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/HM1UPY_texas-trail-1866-to-1897-historical_Upton-WY.html
Following the Civil War, construction of the transcontinental Railroad opened the west, ensuring elimination of the buffalo herds, forcing Native American Indians onto reservations where the military provided food. The rails transported range fatt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPX_pine-paradise-historical_Upton-WY.html
You are amidst a stand of ponderosa pines. These majestic trees which can reach heights of 180 feet provided a variety of habitats for wildlife. Porcupines, pygmy nuthatches, red squirrels and mule deer inhabit ponderosa pine forested. Porcupine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPW_texas-trail-1866-1897-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
Following the Civil War, construction of the transcontinental Railroad opened the West, ensuring elimination of vast buffalo herds and forcing Native American Indians onto reservations where the military provided food. Leggy Texas Longhorns wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPS_the-osage-oilfield-historical_Osage-WY.html
The Osage Oilfield was the first large producing oil field in Weston County. The first oil well drilled here and put into commercial production was the discovery well drilled by the Sinclair Oil Company in 1919. It was immediately sold to Alliance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP9_accidental-oil-well-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
In February of 1966, Al Smith of Newcastle made history by successfully completing the world's only producing hand dug oil well. Using a pick and shovel, he dug twenty-one feet into the oil-bering Newcastle Formation. When he encountered the harde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP7_the-jenny-stockade-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
One-half mile east of this spot was a supply depot for army units convoying the Professor W.P. Jenny Party, which in 1875, surveyed mineral and other resources of the Black Hills for the United States. By 1876 it was a station the Cheyenne-Deadwoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UP0_hanging-of-diamond-l-slim-clifton-historical_Newcastle-WY.html
William C. Clifton worked as a cowpuncher on the Diamond L Ranch. where he acquired the nickname "Diamond L Slim." On March 15, 1903, he shot and killed John W. and Luella Foster Church in the Churches' homestead cabin on Porcupine Creek. Slim was…
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