Oregon Trail

The stone went up beside a grave the road had just moved. In 1912 engineers surveying a better road from Glenrock to Casper found three-year-old Ada Magill's 1864 grave on its centerline. The surveyor L. C. Bishop, later state engineer, moved it thirty feet north with a shovel crew of convicts from the county jail, who found a few small bones, pearl buttons and cut nails. Bishop carved a new headstone with the old inscription and buried the original in the new grave. The trail itself runs about fifty feet south.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Marked by the State of Wyoming 1913

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Caspar Museum — 20 mi
  The crossing before the fort: the Mormon ferry of 1847 and Guinard's toll bridge of 1859, rebuilt beside the 1936 log station.

More markers nearby

• Rock in the Glen — 4.9 mi
• Ferdinand V. Hayden — 5.4 mi
• Deer Creek Station — 5.4 mi
• Pioneer Monument — 18 mi