Preview
Identifier
sa4_076_02
Description
This black and white card features a brief history of Hell's Half Acre. Typed text fills the card.
Physical Description
black and white photograph
Keywords
Casper (Wyo.), Archaeological sites, Paleontology, Expedition photographs, Erosion, Rock formations, Landscape
Rights
© University Archives, Fort Hays State University
Publisher
Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections
Collection
Recommended Citation
Sternberg, George Fryer 1883-1969, "076_02: Legend Hell's Half-Acre" (2021). George Sternberg Album #4. 343.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sternberg_album4/343
Language
eng
Transcription
Legend Hell's Half-Acre This tract, covering approximately 920 acres, was first visited by a detachment of Capt. B.L.E Bonneville during July 1833 and was named "The Burning Mountain" as it was at that time emitting sulphurous fumes and gases from burning bituminous deposits. Captain Bonneville, an Army Capt. who secured a special dispensation from the Government to conduct a party of fur trappers and hunters through what is now the state of Wyoming, guided the first wagon train from the Missouri River up the valley of the "Platte", then called the "Nebraska", and on into the green River Country, then a hunters' Paradise, but for the Indians. Some historians tell us that this place was made use of by the Indians as a corral into which herds of buffalos were driven for slaughter. Some early pioneers dispute this theory and claim that the many flint arrow heads found there were shot by Indian praire(sic) chicken and sage hen hunters.
Keywords
Casper (Wyo.), Archaeological sites, Paleontology, Expedition photographs, Erosion, Rock formations, Landscape
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