Bozeman Trail

Half a mile along Pass Creek Road a panel marks Pass, a post office opened in 1888 by Thurston Akins and named, by the county's record, for a pass on this trail. When the Burlington built through in 1894 it missed Pass, and the mail moved to the new station, named Parkman. The railroad's namesake was Francis Parkman, the Boston historian whose summer of 1846 took him to Fort Laramie and into The Oregon Trail. He never traveled this road, which was not opened until the 1860s.

What the plaque says

Bozeman Trail Marked by the State of Wyoming 1914

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 11 mi
  In 1865 General Connor's troops attacked Black Bear's Arapaho village here while many of its men were away; women and children died with the warriors.
• Trail End State Historic Site — 23 mi
  A Texas trail hand's Flemish Revival mansion, five years in the building, that he barely lived in once Wyoming sent him to the governor's office and the Senate.
• Sheridan Inn — 24 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Rosebud Battlefield State Park — 24 mi
  The ridges where Crook's column was stopped eight days before the Little Bighorn, remembered by the Cheyenne for one woman's ride.

More markers nearby

• Tongue River Crossing — 9.1 mi
• Bozeman Trail — 9.1 mi
• First Woman Mayor in Wyoming — 9.5 mi
• The Battle of Tongue River — 11 mi