Site of the First Cabin Built in Sheridan

The stone's 1878 cabin has more than one builder in the record. One account says Jim Mason put it up that year and sold it to Frank Yates and John Brown, who sold it to George Mandel, appointed on March 2, 1881 as postmaster of a post office named for himself; John Loucks remembered Mandel building it the summer before he came. Loucks bought cabin and claim in 1882 for fifty dollars, by his own telling, platted Sheridan around it and renamed the post office. The cabin has been moved seven times and stands rebuilt in Whitney Commons.

What the plaque says

Site of the first cabin built in Sheridan 1878. — 1914. Erected by the D.A.R.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail End State Historic Site — 0.5 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 — 0.5 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 13 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.
• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 20 mi
  A Bozeman Trail fort whose wood trains were attacked for two years, and the wagon-box corral where its woodcutters held out behind new breech-loaders in 1867.

More markers nearby

• Crook Monument — 0.3 mi
• Mines Shape a Community — 5.2 mi
• The Bozeman Trail and the Goose Creek Valley — 7.2 mi
• Sheridan — 7.2 mi