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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UG3_ten-sleep-memorial-a-war-memorial_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
Dedicated to those men from the Ten Sleep Area who gave their lives in service of their country James Morgareidge · Lyle Williams · Larry Rosetti · Parker Boyle · Ernest LaRose · Marvin Waln &mid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UG2_bighorn-national-forest-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
You are standing at the bottom of Ten Sleep Canyon near the western edge of the Big Horn Mountains. These steep rocky cliffs were the native territory of the Bighorn sheep. Disease and the activities of humans and livestock have led to their event…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UG1_leigh-creek-monument-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
At the rim above Tensleep Canyon is the Leigh Creek Monument, erected in 1889 in memory of English nobleman Gilbert E. Leigh. Leigh, a lifelong big game hunter and outdoor enthusiast, went missing in the fall of 1884 during a hunting expedition. F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UG0_tensleep-canyon-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
Ages ago, these mountains were deep within the Earth's crust, and the area that is known today as the Bighorn Mountains was a basic. Beginning about 75 million years ago the land began to slowly rise above the sea bed reaching an elevation of near…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UFZ_company-841-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
Below you are the waters of Meadowlark Lake, a popular recreation area on (sic) the Bighorn National Forest Meadowlark Lake was created by the construction of a dam by Company 841 of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. From April 1934, when…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UFA_spring-creek-raid-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
Cattlemen of the Big Horn Basin dominated the range for many years and set up boundaries or "deadlines" where sheep were forbidden. Fierce animosity grew between the opposing sheep and cattle ranchers as several sheep camps were raided during the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UF9_site-of-south-wagon-historical_Ten-Sleep-WY.html
where Bounce Helmer and Pete Cafferall were captured by masked raiders and their wagons burned on the night of April 2nd 1909.
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