Together, We Have Come A Long Way

Electricity reached these farms because the farmers went and got it. In 1938 a Uinta Basin man named Shirley Daniels wrote a letter to the federal Rural Electrification Administration, and by fall he and his neighbors had signed up members, collected deposits, and voted a cooperative into being at the Altamont high school. Two years later they had a hydro plant running on the Yellowstone River. What it changed was ordinary and enormous — light to read by after dark, and a motor to do the work of several hands. The co-op is still theirs.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Settlement of Neola — 14 mi
• Roosevelt — 16 mi
• Fort Robidoux — 21 mi
• Northern Ute Veterans Memorial — 22 mi