Showing posts with label Big Horn County Wyoming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Horn County Wyoming. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Old Trail Town Cemetary, Cody Wyoming

 This is the cemetery at the Old Trail Town in Cody Wyoming. The cemetery includes the graves and markers for several well known frontiersmen.

 This is the marker for John "Liver Eating" Johnson, more popularly known ad "Jeremiah" Johnson due to the film.  Johnson was a cavalryman, mountain man, and in later years, a law man in Wyoming and Montana.  His marker is marked with, in addition to his name and nickname, "No more trails".

 Marker for Jim White, buffalo hunter

Markers for Floyd Stillings, early rodeo cowboy, and William Garlow "Cody", grandchild of Buffalo Bill Cody and attorney in Big Horn County Wyoming.


Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Shoshone Forest Fire of August 21, 1937 Memorial (Blackwater Fire)




This memorial is to the Civilian Conservation Corps, United States Forest Service, and Bureau of Public Roads men who died in the Blackwater Fire of 1937.  The fire is the fourth deadliest forest fire in the U.S. history.