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Darkness Looms~ The Cunningham Cabin

Panoramic of the Cunningham Cabin

Grand Teton National Park

Wyoming, USA

 

There's a long, complicated (and hilarious) history of the origins of the park. It's a very interesting place to visit. And a very tiny, yet important piece of that historical puzzle is of John Cunningham's Cabin. The cabin has been reconstructed; the original was built back in the late 1800's and didn't survive. This cabin has been the scene of a shootout between horse thieves and a posse, used as a fort during a period of tension between Jackson's hole and the Bannack tribe, and more commonly known as part of a farming enterprise by Mr. Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham originally fell unto the Tetons as a hunter/trapper, mid-lifed the area as a farmer and left as a conservationist. But the photograph speaks for itself. What a view.

 

Take a peak from inside the 'dog-trot' of the cabin! www.flickr.com/photos/23859710@N02/10918287574/

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Uploaded on November 12, 2013
Taken on September 28, 2013