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1908 Map of Medicine Bow

Name: 1908 Topographic Map of Medicine Bow
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Medicine Bow Peak serves as the focal point of this early 20th-century survey, towering over the high-elevation terrain of the Medicine Bow Range and Medicine Bow Mountains. The landscape is a network of alpine lakes and headwaters, including Sand Lake, Lake Marie, and the three forks of the Rock Creek. The industrial and agricultural development of the era is evident through a scattered presence of family-run operations and extraction sites, such as Logan-Grisley Ranch, Stillson Ranch, and the American Mine.

Transportation through these high passes relied on the Laramie Hahns Peak and Pacific R R, which follows the contours of the Little Laramie River valley. The map documents early land use with labels for Webbers Sawmill and remote outposts like Lenhardts Cabin and Holmes. Straddling the Carbon and Albany County line and extending down to the Wyoming-Colorado boundary line, this map provides a record of the ranching and mining families who established the first permanent infrastructure in this high country.