On County Route 347 near Interstate 80, on the right.
At age 18, Fenimore Chatterton arrived in Wyoming on September 12, 1878 to begin a lifelong career of service to Wyoming.
The young Fenimore came west on the Union Pacific to Fort Steele for a bookkeeping job at the J.W, Hugus Trading Post. . . . — — Map (db m89995) HM
On West Big Horn Avenue (U.S. 20) near Shiloh Road, on the left when traveling north.
The Hanover Canal System, an irrigation project funded by J.W. Pulliam and his family, was completed in the Big Horn Basin in 1905, bringing settlers to Worland. Soon after the close of the project, which included the Big Horn Canal, Pulliam planted . . . — — Map (db m97828) HM
Near U.S. 287 12 miles east of Wyoming Highway 28.
Viewed from Beaver Rim, the Wind River Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain chain, boast 53 granite peaks over 13,000 feet high. The Continental Divide runs the length of the Wind River Range. Water on the east side of the Continental Divide . . . — — Map (db m67012) HM
Near Demaris Drive near West Yellowstone Avenue (U.S. 14).
Belle Drewry was born in 1867, just two years after the Civil War. Her birth place and family are unknown. It is known that she left home at an early age and changed her name. Belle was a rather attractive young woman; about five foot six inches . . . — — Map (db m91077) HM
South Pass was discovered in 1812 by a small band of Astorians led by Robert Stuart as they traveled east with dispatches for John Jacob Astor. It was “rediscovered” in 1824 by a party led by Jedediah Smith as they searched for a winter . . . — — Map (db m80501) HM
On Dry Creek Road near Wyoming State Highway (Route 136), on the right when traveling north.
Although uranium discoveries occurred throughout Wyoming
beginning in the early 1900s it was not until 1948, when the Atomic
Energy Commission guaranteed a market for yellowcake (processed
uranium), that prospecting started in earnest. In . . . — — Map (db m283790) HM
On Main Street (Route 287) near South 3rd Street, on the left.
The Fremont served guests for eighty years on the corner of Main and 3rd, from 1891 to 1971. Jerry Sheehan had the foresight to build an out-of-the ordinary hotel in an isolated western town. Mr. Sheehan was no stranger to the hotel business. Prior . . . — — Map (db m95872) HM
In the summer of 1904, the Pioneer Townsite Company laid out the plat for Shoshoni. The first business to be erected in the town was the Elkhorn Hotel, built in September 1905. In 1906 the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad reached Shoshoni from . . . — — Map (db m288706) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
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