Pinckney W. Sublette

The bronze is surer than the record: William Ashley reported in 1829 that Pinckney Sublette was one of three men killed in 1828 when Indians, thought to be Blackfeet, attacked James Tulloch's party. In the 1890s heirs needing him alive past 1861 to claim Sublette land in St. Louis went looking; in 1897 their lawyer dug up a grave on Fontenelle Creek marked P. W. S., 1865. A young heir later said he had made that headstone himself, and in 1900 a judge found Pinckney had died long before 1861. The bones sat in a courthouse closet till 1935.

What the plaque says

Pinckey W. Sublette Died 1865 Buried on Fontenelle Creek, exhumed 1897 taken to the U.S. Circuit Court at St. Louis, Mo., returned by a court order to Sublette County, Wyoming to be buried here July 27, 1935. Placed July 4, 1936 by The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Mountain Man — 9.7 mi
  Six fur-trade rendezvous met near here on the Green; the only artist who ever saw one, Alfred Jacob Miller, came in 1837.

More markers nearby

• First Holy Mass in Wyoming — steps away
• Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding — 1.4 mi
• Green River Rendezvous — 1.4 mi
• The Prairie of the Mass — 2.0 mi