Inyan Kara Methodist Episcopal Church

The pastor this stone credits was Olin B. Chassell, an 1888 graduate of the Iowa State Normal School at Cedar Falls, who came west with his wife, Ella Buckingham Chassell, also of that school. Its student paper followed them: illness held up the start of their work at Sundance, and in February 1892 he passed through Cedar Falls on his way back to Wyoming, still not ready to take up his duties. They later returned to Iowa, where the couple edited The Iowa Methodist and Ella stood for county superintendent of schools in Hardin County.

What the plaque says

Inyan Kara Methodist Episcopal Church one of the first country churches in Wyoming was built by Rev. O. B. Chassell, pastor of Sundance circuit, and members of Inyan Kara Community in 1891. Site one mile west. Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1952

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vore Buffalo Jump — 20 mi
  A gypsum sinkhole where hunters trapped bison for 250 years, each hunt sealed in its own layer, and the reason Interstate 90 bends south here.
• Devils Tower National Monument — 30 mi
  A plug of gray-green igneous rock cooled into columns 40 million years ago, first climbed on a stake ladder in 1893, where a parachutist was stranded for six days in 1941.

More markers nearby

• Crook County — 9.9 mi
• Custer Expedition — 9.9 mi
• Canyon Springs Station: Site of the "Treasure Run" Stage Robbery — 16 mi
• Cambria Salt Mine — 21 mi