National Historic Landmark - Aldo Leopold Shack & Farm

In the early 1930s, Aldo Leopold, a forester, writer, professor, and influential conservationist, purchased a small farm and rehabilitated a chicken coop, lovingly referred to as the Shack, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to function as a location in which his conservation ...

National Historic Landmark - Administration Building and Research Tower, S.C. Johnson Company

Frank Lloyd Wright's Depression-era design for the Johnson Wax Company's Administration Building and Research Tower was so radical that local building commissioners refused to approve it without a test. At issue were Wright's novel "mushroom" columns, intended to carry loads ...

National Historic Landmark - Wyoming State Capitol

As a territory, Wyoming had been the first major jurisdiction in the United States where women had full suffrage, and in 1889, an all-male group drafted a State constitution that included Women's suffrage. When Wyoming Territory applied for Statehood in ...

National Historic Landmark - Wapiti Ranger Station

Built in 1903, this was the first forest ranger station erected at Federal expense. It is situated within the first national forest reserve (Shoshone National Forest), which was established by President Benjamin Harrison in 1891.

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National Historic Landmark - Upper Green River Rendezvous Site

Of the 15 annual meetings held by mountain men of the Rocky Mountain fur trade from 1825 to 1840, this was the most popular rendezvous site. The annual spring trading fair held here attracted Euro-American traders and trappers, including Kit ...

National Historic Landmark - Union Pacific Railroad Depot

The depot is the last of the grand 19th-century depots remaining on the transcontinental railroad. It formed a strategic point along the Union Pacific Railroad, America's first transcontinental rail line, and was easily the Union Pacific's most grandiose facility west ...

National Historic Landmark - Swan Land & Cattle

Organized in Scotland in 1883, this company was one of the foreign concerns that flourished in the West when the range cattle industry was profitable during the 1880s. It operated for over 70 years. Surviving buildings include the ranch-house, barn, ...

National Historic Landmark - Tom Sun Ranch

The Tom Sun Ranch typifies the medium-sized ranching operations of the open range period of the 1870s and '80s. Sun was a French-Canadian frontiersman who became a pioneer cattleman.

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National Historic Landmark - South Pass

South Pass was the easiest passage through the Rocky Mountains and heavily used by westbound settlers, fur traders, and miners in the 19th century. The traffic through the Pass helped establish an effective U.S. claim to the Pacific Northwest.

National Historic Landmark - Sheridan Inn

William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody operated this hotel in 1894-1896, catering principally to sportsmen. The frame building has a wide porch on two sides, on which Cody would sit to audition cowboys for his famous Wild West Show.