near Ten Sleep, Wyoming.
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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 . . .
(Notable Events) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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 . . . (Notable Events) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
where Bounce Helmer and Pete Cafferall were captured by masked raiders and their wagons burned on the night of April 2nd 1909. 
This cemetery is the possible site of Lee’s Bethel, the island’s first church. Next to the cemetery is the last of the island’s once plentiful garden farms. Tangiermen were famous for growing melons, filling their boats . . . 
Dedicated to the men and women who served and those who gave their lives for their country
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, city-dwellers from the Midwest escaped hot summers in the fresh air of northern Michigan. Constructed in 1899 for Norman J. Perry, the Hotel Perry catered to these . . . 
This boulder marks the Old Indian Trail from Mackinaw City to Grand Rapids used from time immemorial by the Huron, Ottawa, Chippewa and other tribes
To the honor and memory of Lombard Post No. 170 by Lombard W.R.C. No. 152 June 14, 1927.
This rare Confederate cannon marks the site of the 1889 Grand Army of the Republic Encampment This cast iron Napoleon howitzer was manufactured at the Augusta, Georgia (CSA) Arsenal during the Civil War. Until its . . . 
This station, built in 1899, served as the region’s transportation hub. The Hemingway family passed through it often when going from Harbor Springs to their Walloon Lake cottage. Hemingway himself used the station when . . . 
Built in 1899, this is the only one of Petoskey’s grand turn of the century resort hotels still in existence. In 1916 Ernest Hemingway hiked and camped his way to northern Michigan from his Oak Park, Illinois, home with a . . . 
Carolina Power & Light Car Barn & Automobile Garage Built 1925 Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places
The area immediately east of this lot was the site of Petoskey's first hotel, built by Dr. William Little and his brother Robert. It was first called the Rose House. Later the original rude little building was replaced by a . . . 
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 • Charles Rhodes • Lester . . . 
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 . . . 
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 . . . 
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 . . . 
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. . . . 
Petoskey was a village just 20 years old when Dr. Norman J. Perry built this hotel in 1899. Resort trade flourished then, and so did the Perry, advertised as the only fireproof hotel in town. Its brick construction, a . . . 
When living in Petoskey in 1919, the library was a favorite haunt of Hemingway's and, in December, wearing his Italian cape and Red Cross uniform, he spoke here to the Ladies Aid Society about his World War I experiences. At . . . 
Born Petoskey October 9, 1899
