O. P. Hanna Cabin Marker and Sundial

Oliver Perry Hanna built a cabin on what became Hanna Creek in 1878, and the register records two objects here making two claims for it: the first cabin in northern Wyoming, and the first in what is now Sheridan County, dated August 11. Hanna had hunted buffalo and fought in the Indian wars before he settled, and when the herds were gone he went to Fort Laramie and back, some four hundred miles, for seed and a plow. He sold the ranch in 1880, kept a store at Big Horn, and was its postmaster from 1896 to 1900.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail End State Historic Site — 9.3 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 — 9.7 mi
  A hunting-lodge hotel with sixty-nine gables, where Buffalo Bill is said to have auditioned Wild West acts from the porch.
• Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site — 13 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.
• Connor Battlefield State Historic Site — 19 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.

More markers nearby

• Bozeman Trail — 0.7 mi
• The Bozeman Trail and the Goose Creek Valley — 4.8 mi
• Sheridan — 4.8 mi
• Bozeman Trail — 8.3 mi