Dick Turpin

The plaque's 1887 holds. A souvenir history of the valley printed in the mid-1920s names Dick Turpin among the men who settled that year, with William Crawford, John Cherry and John Jackson; the next year the valley counted eighteen people. It places his ranch up the Gros Ventre canyon, though, and credits him with the sixty-foot tunnel that did the 1892 assessment work on the Jackson Hole Coal Company's claims, north of today's Slide Lake. The guest ranch here dates itself to his cabin. Nothing found confirms the soldier or the scout.

What the plaque says

In memory of Dick Turpin soldier, scout and pioneer settled here 1887 Erected by the trustees Robert E. Miller F. Buchenroth C. R. Van Vleck Wm. L. Simpson Dedicated by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1940

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cunningham Cabin — 15 mi
  An 1888 dog-trot homestead cabin where a posse shot two men in 1893, and the valley decided not to talk about it.
• Gros Ventre Slide — 21 mi
  The north face of Sheep Mountain fell into the river in 1925; the dam it made held two years, then emptied onto the town of Kelly.
• Mormon Row Historic District — 24 mi
  A Latter-day Saint farm village on Antelope Flats, its ditches still running and the Moulton barns still standing against the Tetons.
• Murie Ranch — 27 mi
  The porch where the Wilderness Act was argued into being; Olaus Murie died a year before it passed, and Mardy kept going for forty more.

More markers nearby

• Cattleman's Bridge — 14 mi
• John Colter — 19 mi
• Trappers Monument — 19 mi
• Tie Hack Memorial — 22 mi