Lost Cabin, Wyoming Explained

Lost Cabin is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.

History

A post office called Lost Cabin was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1966.[1] The community received its name from a pioneer incident in which a party of prospectors escaped from Indians, only to find later their cabins had disappeared from the site.[2]

In popular culture

In his poem The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz, Dana Gioia describes how his great-grandfather, a Mexican immigrant from Sonora, worked as a Wild West cow-puncher and was later murdered by a disgruntled and racist patron while working as a saloon keeper at Lost Cabin in 1910.[3]

References

43.2864°N -107.6325°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Post Offices. Jim Forte Postal History . 5 January 2017.
  2. Book: Moyer. Armond. Moyer. Winifred. The origins of unusual place-names. 1958. Keystone Pub. Associates. 79.
  3. John Zheng (2021), Conversations with Dana Gioia, University of Mississippi Press. Pages 234-238.