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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXT_salt-creek-oil-field-historical_Midwest-WY.html
Stockmen were aware of pools of oil in the creek bottoms during cattle trailing days. These oil seeps led to the discovery of Salt Creek, one of Wyoming's largest oil fields, nine miles long by five miles wide. In 1883, the first claims were filed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXS_oil-boom-towns-historical_Midwest-WY.html
"Get out and don't come back!" was the message John Hunton and his oil prospecting party received in 1873 from a mounted band of Arapahoe Indians while filling glass jars with pure crude oil seeping from the sandy ground. This is the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXR_midwest-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Midwest-WY.html
Two memorial plaques are located on the base of the American Legion flagpole.
In Memorium
1918
Orin Snyder · Wm. McClaffin · John M. Speckbacher
Who Died for Democracy
In Memory of those who paid the supreme sac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3P_society-in-an-oil-patch_Midwest-WY.html
center panel:
In the early 1900s, hopeful oil workers flooded Salt Creek - especially "boomers" from "gone bust" oilfields in other states. Many companies built camps next to wells to house employees. As companies changed hands and shifted from …