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Cunningham Cabin

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cabin, 1890 house site, fort site, barn site, bunkhouse and outbuildings sites, as well as pits that may have been wells or privies. The cabin measures about 41.5 feet (12.6 m) by 15.25 feet (4.65 m). Two rooms both open into the breezeway, each room with two windows facing northeast and southwest. The south room was the living quarters, the north was used as a forge.
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building form to the West. The cabin was built just south of Spread Creek by John Pierce Cunningham, who arrived in Jackson Hole in 1885 and subsisted as a trapper until he established the Bar Flying U Ranch in 1888. The Cunninghams left the valley for Idaho in 1928, when land was being acquired for
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in origin. No nails or metal fastenings were used in the cabin's construction. The cabin was reconstructed in 1956, resetting the wall logs after replacing the sill logs and rebuilding the roof. The logs are saddle-V-notched at the corners. The site comprises 10 acres (4.0 ha), including the
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Cunningham and his wife grew about 100 acres (40 ha) of hay, later irrigating another 140 acres (57 ha) to provide feed for 100 cattle and eight horses. His brother, W. Pierce Cunningham, settled his family nearby. By 1924 the Cunningham ranch comprised 560 acres (230 ha). By 1926
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Two Montana wranglers approached Cunningham in the fall of 1892 to purchase hay. Cunningham allowed the strangers to winter on his ranch. Rumors spread that the men were horse thieves. Next spring, a man claiming to be a U.S. Marshal, with three deputies, rode into Jackson from Idaho. Joined by
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After 1895 the Cunninghams, who had built a more commodious house, used the cabin as a barn or a smithy. A small fortification was erected in 1895 during unrest involving the Bannack Indians. Traces of foundations survive.
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Jackson recruits, the marshal's men surrounded the ranch at night. In the morning, the posse gunned down the alleged thieves. The men's guilt, the allegations, and the marshal's identity were never confirmed.
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was organized in 1923. He was also, at various times, justice of the peace, postmaster and game warden.
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style building with a room on either side of the central breezeway or "dog-trot." The form is
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Cunningham Cabin, Between Snake River & U.S. Route 89, Moose vicinity, Teton County, WY
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J. Pierce Cunningham was one of the original county commissioners chosen when
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Cunningham had moved out of cattle and was raising sheep on the land.
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in the US state of Wyoming. It was built as a homestead in
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Geraldine Lucas Homestead-Fabian Place Historic District
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Cunningham Cabin is located in Wyoming
Cunningham Cabin is located in the United States
Moose, Wyoming
43°46′44″N 110°33′28″W / 43.77889°N 110.55778°W / 43.77889; -110.55778
MPS
Grand Teton National Park MPS
73000225
Grand Teton National Park
Jackson Hole
Appalachian
Teton County
dog-trot
Appalachian
View through the cabin
Historical buildings and structures of Grand Teton National Park
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Cunningham Cabin"
"The Pioneers: Homesteading in Jackson Hole, 1884-1900"
ISBN
0-8118-1854-3
"Chapter 6: The Pioneers: Homesteading in Jackson Hole, 1884-1900"
the original


"Cunningham Cabin"

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