Union Pass

The stone lists the party and leaves out the three men who chose its road. Near the Niobrara in May 1811 Hunt met John Hoback, Edward Robinson and Jacob Reznor, Kentucky hunters coming home from Andrew Henry's post beyond the mountains, and their reports of the Blackfeet upriver sent him off the Missouri at the Arikara villages that July and overland through this valley. Over the pass the party hunted buffalo on the upper Green, and the river it followed next still carries Hoback's name. The stone's Indian woman was Marie Dorion, an Ioway.

What the plaque says

Union Pass Westbound Astorians led by Wilson Price Hunt in September, 1811, passed through Dubois region, over Union Pass, and on to the mouth of the Columbia river to explore a line of communication and to locate sites for fur trading posts across the continent for John Jacob Astor. In the party were Mackenzie, Crooks, Miller, McClellan, Reed, 11 hunters, interpreters and guides; 45 Canadian engages, an Indian woman and her 2 children. Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1956

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Union Pass — steps away
• Tie Hack Memorial — 7.8 mi