In Memoriam

On our way back to Lander, I discovered this engraved rock along the side road. I got on the internet and tried to find out something about these particular people. This is the only things I was able to discover about them...

On the 27th day of June 1870, Dr. Barr, Harvey Morgan, and Jerome Mason were killed on Willow Creek between Big and Little Popo Agie Rivers by Sioux warriors. From other readings, it would appear that there were a lot of Indian skirmishes in 1870 with lots of white settlers killed.

The skull of Harvey Morgan was the first artifact placed in the Pioneer Museum collections. In fact, this relic inspired Lander's pioneer settlers in 1909 to create the museum. The log cabin they built was the first building erected in Wyoming to be a museum; it now houses some 30,000 artifacts. The young Morgan, an Oregon Trail emigrant, gold miner and homesteader, enjoyed a full if brief life. In life and death, he played an important role in Lander's growth.