1952 Map of Blue Holes

About this map

The Wind River Indian Reservation dominates this 1952 study area in Fremont County, where the Wind River meets its East Fork and various drainages like Coal Draw. The landscape reveals a transition from managed wilderness to early 20th-century resource extraction, highlighted by an abandoned Coal Mine (Aband) near the Reservation East Boundary. Human activity is further marked by the State Game and Fish Checking Station situated along the river and a small Footbridge downstream. To the southwest, the terrain rises toward Table Mountain as the boundary crosses into the Shoshone National Forest. This mapping, conducted for the Missouri River Basin development program, captures the intricate water management of the era through features like the Red Creek Ditch.