Fort McKinney Monuments and Plaques

The home this boulder dates to 1903 began five years earlier, at the other end of the state. Wyoming opened its Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in 1898 at Fort D. A. Russell in Cheyenne, under the Board of Charities and Reform, and the 1903 legislature moved it onto the abandoned Fort McKinney grounds the federal government had turned over. It kept that name until the mid-1980s, when it became the Veterans' Home of Wyoming to take in every veterans' group. Three guns around the boulder carry 1941 plaques from Spanish War veterans, the VFW and the Legion.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Occidental Hotel — 2.2 mi
  Buffalo's 1880 grand hotel, its 1908 saloon ceiling still pocked with bullet holes, won once in a poker game and nearly torn down in the 1990s.
• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 14 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

• Fort McKinney — 0.5 mi
• Powder River Country — 2.2 mi
• Bozeman Trail — 2.9 mi
• Buffalo — 5.2 mi