Lost Cabin mine?...NOT Traditional Cache
b'wile'd: Well, its gone AGAIN! Probably some well-meaning rancher or site seer 'cleaning up trash'.
Sorry, we are down to about 2 'real caches'.
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Hwy14 on Big Horn Mtn...car OK 1 mile gravel road Mtn Rd 196 ...then short walk... accessible between snow seasons only unless on snowmachines
Just as Arizona has the Lost Dutchman's Mine in the Superstitions, Wyoming has its Lost Cabin Mine.
HISTORY: According to the legend, in 1863, 3 men named Cox, Jones and Herlburt, while traveling east from Walla Walla, discovered a rich deposit of placer gold someplace in central Wyoming. They built a small cabin-stockade and gathered the gold. Indians attacked and only Herlburt escaped. Depending on the source, the mine was in the Wind Rivers, the Big Horns, or along Crazy Woman Creek.
Other embellishments are sometimes added: Jim Bridger supposedly "rediscovered" the mine while guiding the Raynolds Expedition,(check the route of that expedition) but he was sworn to secrecy out of fear that all the men on the expedition would take off to mine for gold. Others claim that Father Pierre DeSmet, Catholic missionary to the Indians, knew the location of the mine.
Regardless of the uncertainty of location, fall of 1893, a prospector,J. C. Carter, arrived in Casper with news that he had found the long lost mine in the Big Horn Mountains and several citizens accompanied Carter back to the lost cabin mine. It turned out to be an Indian hunting blind.
Check out the spring box in the meadow below the road, and the 'stockade' just NW of the camp and ore-car railroad.
Thus, if there ever was a Lost Cabin Mine ... it remains lost.
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