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At least half of the group were wealthy cattlemen. George Saban, the leader of the group, was the owner of the Bay State Cattle Company, one of the largest in Wyoming, and already known to the public for having led the lynch mob that raided the Big Horn County jail in 1903, where two prisoners and a deputy sheriff were killed. [6] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Big Horn County was named for the Big Horn Mountains which form its eastern boundary. [4] Originally, the county included the entire Big Horn Basin, but in 1909 Park County, WY was created from a portion of Big Horn County, and in 1911 Hot Springs and Washakie counties were created from portions of Big Horn, leaving the county with its present ...
Wyoming entered the Union in 1890. As a territory, inmates were held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie. Work began for a state prison at Rawlins in 1888, but the facility did not open until 1901. The building had 104 cells and housed both male and female inmates. In 1909, female inmates were transported to Colorado to serve their ...
The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south.
Basin is a town in, and the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. [6] The population was 1,288 at the 2020 census. The community is located near the center of the Bighorn Basin with the Big Horn River east of the town. Basin's post office, built in 1919, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The community is located along the Greybull River on Wyoming Highway 30 between Basin and Burlington. Public education in the community of Otto is provided by Big Horn County School District #1 . Children attend Burlington Elementary School (grades PK-6), Burlington Junior High School (grades 7–8), and Burlington High School (grades 9–12).
Remnants of a cairn-marked trail between the Bighorn Basin and the northern plains, established by Native Americans in antiquity and used by their descendents and mountain men into the mid-1830s. Extends into Carbon County, Montana. [6] 3: Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building: Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building: July 19, 1976
The J.D. Woodruff Cabin Site is the location of the first European-American settlement in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.John Dwight Woodruff built a cabin on Owl Creek in Hot Springs County in 1871.