Travel Wyoming’s Vore Buffalo Jump Campbell County Black Hills 1 3 Rockpile Museum Five hundred years ago, The museum in Gillette to Yellowstone American Indian tribes owns a collection of began driving bison into a more than 8,000 historic route with natural sinkhole bordering photographs. Exhibits the northern Great Plains include rifles, saddles, and the Black Hills. This Indian artifacts, fossils, perfect trap allowed the quilts and more. people to acquire large Since before Wyoming paved its amounts of meat and hides roads, travelers have enjoyed to be used for their own Fort Phil Kearny the route between the Black Hills survival. 4 and Yellowstone National Park The largest of the three for its spectacular scenery — and forts built along the its history. Here are some stops Devils Tower Bozeman Trail, Fort Phil that will allow the tourist to become 2 Kearny was established on July 15, 1866, near present- a time traveler, too—from prehistoric Rising 1,267 feet above day Story, Wyo. eras through the colorful 1800s to the the Belle Fourche River, present. Devils Tower is hard to miss. In fact, the formation Fetterman Fight Use the QR codes on the following of this distinctive rock 5 figures prominently in the pages with your mobile phone or tablet Near Fort Phil Kearny in sacred legends of several December 1866, Lakota or visit www.wyohistory.org/ American Indian groups Sioux and Cheyenne yellowstone for in-depth articles, who know the tower as warriors ambushed and maps, directions and photo galleries— Bear Lodge or Bear’s Tipi, killed Capt. William all with info on these historic sites and among other names. Fetterman and his entire landmarks. command of 79 men. Heart Mountain Coal Camps of 10 Interpretive Center 8 Sheridan County The Heart Mountain After the Burlington Interpretive Center stands Wagon Box Fight Railroad reached Sheridan on the grounds of the World 6 in 1892, coal camps— War II internment camp company towns for miners where more than 10,000 On Aug. 2, 1867, a large and their families—were Japanese Americans were force of Oglala Sioux established next to a series held from 1942 to 1945. attacked woodcutters near of mines north of the town. Fort Phil Kearny. Soldiers assigned to protect the Buffalo Bill woodcutters took cover 11 Center of the West behind a ring of wagon 9 Medicine Wheel boxes. The Buffalo Bill Center of The Medicine Wheel, a the West in Cody houses five Trail End ring of limestone boulders museums rich in Wyoming 7 Historic Site 80 feet in diameter with and western history, natural 28 spokes radiating from history and art. The Trail End State Historic a central cairn, lies on a Site, consisting of the wide, treeless mountaintop Kendrick mansion and the in the Bighorn Mountains. Carriage House Theatre, Researchers believe the Yellowstone occupies 3.8 acres of land wheel was constructed over 12 on a hilltop overlooking a period of centuries from National Park Sheridan. about 1,500 to about 500 Yellowstone National Park, years ago. the world’s first national park, was established in 1872 and continues to WyoHistory.org is a project of the enthrall visitors who flock Wyoming State Historical Society, to see its striking scenery, www.wyshs.org. topography, wildlife and amazing thermal features.