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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PP1_corbetts-shebang-at-sinking-water-crossing_Cody-WY.html
On September 10th 1880, Victor Arland and John F. Corbett set up the first mercantile establishment in the Big Horn Basin on the Indian Trace that follows Trail Creek. Looking to the cattlemen for business, they moved to Cottonwood Creek in 1883, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1POZ_eagles-nest-stage-station_Cody-WY.html
In the early 1890s, Thomas Lanchbury was hired by the Bell stage and freight line to build a stage station near Eagle's Nest Springs in Wyoming. The Eagle's Nest Stage Station was the midway point on the run between Red Lodge, Montana and Meeteese…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1POX_daniel-k-inouye_Powell-WY.html
U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (1924-2012) was a lifelong public servant. A veteran who nearly lost his life in brave service with the highly-decorated, all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, has been recognized for his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1POW_norman-y-mineta_Powell-WY.html
At this location, from 1942 to 1943,
Norman Y. Mineta,
Son of Kunisaku (Kay) and Kane Mineta and a U.S.
Citizen, was interned by the United States Government.
Harboring no bitterness, only an abiding love
of his country, he went on to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN5_phillip-h-vetter_Cody-WY.html
Phillip Henry Vetter was born February 7, 1855 near Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia. He was killed by a grizzly bear on the Greybull River in Wyoming in 1892.
A few years after the Civil War, Phillip's family came West by wagon train an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN4_w-a-gallagher-and-blind-bill_Cody-WY.html
William Gallagher and his friend, Blind Bill, were killed on Meeteese Creek below the old town of Arland in mid-March of 1894. Both men, about thirty, were born during the Civil War period.
Gallagher, who was somewhat of an outlaw, was tall, l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN3_belle-drewry_Cody-WY.html
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 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN2_sampson-e-stilwell_Cody-WY.html
Sampson E. Stilwell, better known as "Comanche Jack," was born in Kansas in 1850 and served on the frontier during his youth as a scout and hunter. He is best known for his heroic deeds at the Battle of Beechers Island on September 6 (sic), 1868. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PN0_jim-white_Cody-WY.html
Jim White was born in Missouri in 1828. He found his way into the southwest as a young man, where he was a freighter with ox-drawn wagons.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Jim White served the Confederate Army as a grain buyer and wagon b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM9_old-trail-town_Cody-WY.html
On this site in 1895, Western scout and showman William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody laid out the original townsite of Cody, Wyoming, which he named in his honor. Today Old Trail Town preserves the lifestyle and history of the Frontier West through a …