These photographs depict the 1916 dated memorial to the junction of the Oregon Trail and the Fetterman Road.
The monument is located on Cold Springs Road, State Highway 91, just outside of Douglas, Wyoming, on a road that obviously saw more traffic in former days. As these photographs attest to, the monument has endured significant weathering over the years.
Indeed, it's now very hard to read.
THIS MONUMENT
marks the junction
of the Oregon Trail
and road to Old Ft.
Fetterman nine
miles north of this
spot established
July 19, 1867 abandoned
May 2, 1882.
Erected by the State
Of Wyoming and
citizens of Converse
County to commemorate
the early history of
Wyoming
1916
This would place the monument in the early series of Wyoming historical markers, a large number of which were located along the Oregon Trail.
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