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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 ...
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 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.
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).
Wyoming: County: Big Horn, Park County: Time zone: UTC-7 ... Area code: 307: GNIS feature ID: 1597311 [1] Fenton is an unincorporated community in Big Horn and Park ...
Railroad tracks near Kane, Wyoming. Kane is a ghost town that existed 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the confluence of the Shoshone River and the Bighorn River in Big Horn County, northern Wyoming, United States. Kane started as a lumber shipping point. In 1832, wagon trains of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville passed through Kane.
Location of Big Horn County in Wyoming. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...