Today In Wyoming History: “First White Man’s Cabin In Wyoming”

History is a wonderful thing, and especially when we explore the things that happened in the Cowboy State. Today, we take a trip back to November 2, 1812.

Robert Stuart was an American fur trader. When Robert was just 25 years old, he sailed on a fur trader ship called the Tonquin, where he held a gun to the captain's head after threatening to leave the Faulkin Islands without Stuarts uncle David.

In 1812, Stuart, and a band of men, find themselves in Wyoming. They began construction on a cabin in Natrona County, at an area on Poison Spider Creek. Barring the idea that French Canadian's may have beat them to it, this was known as the first European American cabin.

The cabin was built, in what was then known as an inner-tribal Indian strife area. Which meant it was a fairly dangerous area. Eventually, they left that spot and wintered in the area that we know as Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

For decades, there was a marker near the cabin that read, "First White Man's Cabin In Wyoming." However, at some point, the sign was either taken down or blew away and was never put back up again.