Lost Cabin, Wyoming

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Lost Cabin is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. [1]

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A post office called Lost Cabin was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1966. [2] The community received its name from a pioneer incident in which a party of prospectors escaped from Native Americans, only to find later their cabins had disappeared from the site. [3]

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. [4]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lost Cabin, Wyoming
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 79.
  4. John Zheng (2021), Conversations with Dana Gioia, University of Mississippi Press. Pages 234-238.

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