The Pioneer School was designed by architect Curtis Oehme and constructed by H. P. Anderson in 1914. The original school consisted of one large classroom on the ground floor with a double door in the entry and a storage closet. In 1953 work was completed on a two-room teacherage addition to the east end of the building which consisted of a combination living room, kitchen, and one bedroom. In 1956 the school was upgraded and a music room addition was constructed on the north side. The Pioneer School is an early twentieth century rural school significant as a site of education in an isolated and sparsely populated farming and ranching community. It represents a substantial physical improvement over the one-room log school. It also reflects the early twentieth century movement toward improved standard school facilities. This standard school plan is reflected in the high ceilings and large floor space, a cloak room and large multi-paned banks of windows set high in the walls. Pioneer School held classes from 1914-1969. Class rolls indicate that enrollment fluctuated from as few as five students to as many as twenty-eight students over the years. School District #4 consolidated with Powell School District #1 in 1969. On August 14, 1970, the Pioneer School, along with two acres, was deeded to the Pioneer Service Group to be used as a Community Center. The Center has been used to hold dances, extension club meetings, card parties, anniversary and wedding parties, receptions, benefits, carry-in dinners, and the Clark Reunion, serving as a gathering place and landmark tying the community to its past.

This thematic study includes twelve post offices owned and administered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) throughout the State of Wyoming. These include the Basin, Greybull, Douglas, Lander, Torrington, Thermopolis, Buffalo, Kemmerer, Powell, Yellowstone, Evanston, and Newcastle Main Post Offices. The buildings represent a continuum of federally constructed post offices allocated to the state between the turn of the century and 1941. The buildings exhibit a variety of styles and sizes but maintain a common demeanor representative of the federal presence. All of the buildings were constructed from standardized plans developed from guidelines provided by the Office of the Supervising Architect in the Treasury Department. Variations in design styles reflect both the transition in the design philosophies of the Supervising Architect and the requirements developed in response to the Depression. These variations in design, as well as functions are also somewhat related to the communities in which they were placed and reflect the economic, political, and governmental context of those communities.

The Quintin Blair House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1952-53. The stone and wood house is the only work of Frank Lloyd Wright in Wyoming. It is an excellent example of Wright's ''natural house'', a residential style that became important in the development of Post World War II suburbia. Mr. and Mrs. Quintin Blair has the pleasure of being a part of the last decade of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture and life. In 1951, Wright told the Blairs that he wanted to build a house for them because he did not have one of his houses in Wyoming. Wright directed the building of the house over the telephone to Mr. Blair, who then directed the contractors. Wright never visited the site but he did send apprentices. The design of the Quintin Blair House represents the major focus of Wright's architecture after World War II--the design of private homes that integrate with and reflect their natural setting and is significant as the work of a master architect.

The Ralston Community Clubhouse building was originally constructed as a schoolhouse in 1914 by members of the community. It has served as the clubhouse for the Ralston Community Club since 1930. The building exhibits typical one-room school characteristics with its one-story, simple, rectangular shape, windows located on one wall and the entry vestibule. The Clubhouse holds significance locally and regionally because it functioned as the location for both social and community service activities. In a region of distances and isolation, the Clubhouse has brought women and their families together to share in each others lives and that of the community.

The town of Ralston was on the eastern edge of the Garland Unit of the Shoshone Irrigation Project that opened for homesteading in November 1907. The region was a ''sagebrush and cactus covered desert'' when 276 farms were homesteaded at the first opening of the project. Ralston grew with the influx of settlers to the region and functioned as the service center for the homesteaders. Women working together inspired the creation of the Ralston Community Club. The early years on the reclamation project were difficult and household work occupied nearly every waking minute. In the fall of 1919, after a group of women gathered together to harvest potatoes, the women decided to have afternoon meetings every two weeks in private homes and serve light refreshments. The name chosen for these meetings was the Ralston Community Club with the motto ''general welfare.'' Membership gradually grew by invitation to 39 members. In 1923, the club was officially organized and a constitution adopted. The abandoned Ralston Schoolhouse became the Clubhouse in 1930. In 1946 the Club incorporated with a stated purpose ''to promote social activities for the general welfare of the community through education, social and civic programs...'' The Clubhouse provided members a place to proceed with their community service activities, especially those that require collection and preparation of donated materials or goods. In the 1940s, club work concentrated around war efforts where members sewed Red Cross garments and prepared Christmas boxes for the enlisted men and women. As a social center, the Club held dances, potlucks, pie socials and bazaars, and started a tradition of having a booth at the county fair. The building is significant as an illustration of how isolated communities in the sparsely populated regions of the West developed various means to achieve community solidarity and cohesion. The Ralston Community Clubhouse is a tangible example of how women helped bind their community together in the face of an unforgiving environment.

Commonly known as the Beartooth Highway, this road is an excellent example of the cooperative relationship between the Bureau of Public Roads, precursor to the Federal Highway Administration, and federal land managing agencies such as the National Park Service and the Forest Service. The road was the first and most substantial to be constructed under the Park Approaches Act passed in 1931. Its completion opened new territory for purposes of recreational development and substantially increased tourism in Yellowstone National Park and the region. Its presence facilitated the development of outdoor recreational facilities such as campgrounds, cabin lease sites and trailheads on adjacent Forest Service lands, and furthered the use of these areas by private individuals traveling in their own vehicles. It effectively opened vehicular access to the recreational potential of the formerly remote Beartooth Plateau, created a new entrance to Yellowstone, and started the communities of Red Lodge and Cooke City, Montana, on their path to tourism-based economies.

Also known as the Shoshone Lodge, the Red Star Lodge and Sawmill is an historic dude ranch located in the Shoshone National Forest about six miles from the east entrance into Yellowstone National Park along U.S. Highway 14-16-20 in Park County, Wyoming. The buildings and structures are laid out in typical rustic dude ranch style with a centrally located grand lodge surrounded by guest cabins and support buildings. The buildings evolved over a period of years from 1924 to 1950. The property is historically significant as an operational and nearly intact representation of Western dude ranching as it arose and evolved in Wyoming in the first half of the twentieth century. Its rich history epitomizes the entrepreneurial resourcefulness of the settlers of the Cody region as they recognized their unique chance to provide recreational opportunities in previously inaccessible areas. Yellowstone became this country's first national park in 1872; but it was decades later, within the social context of an emerging middle class, the rise of the automobile, and the 'good roads' movement, that the ''Cody Road'' into Yellowstone precipitated the emergence of dude ranches: places to provide shelter for and recreational opportunities to an increasingly mobile and affluent public eager to explore this nation's natural wonders.

The building named Stock Center was completed and dedicated as the Buffalo Bill Museum in 1927. Until it ceased to serve that purpose in 1969 it was a part of a growing historical-cultural complex which eventually came to be known as the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. The old museum building was constructed of carefully chosen lodgepole pine logs fitted together by carftsmen under direction of the area's acknowledged master-builder of log structures. The conception was to represent, though on a vaster than average scale, a typical cattleman's frontier ranch house. The City of Cody came into possession of the property in 1969 and named it Stock Center.

The T E Ranch Headquarters is a single story log ranch house acquired by Colonel William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody in 1895. Although it is not certain, it may be that the cabin of the original homesteader of the ranch (Bob Burns) may have been incorporated into this structure after Cody purchased the property. Before Mr. Burns' ownership in the early 1880s, while the site was still federal owned public domain, a man called Captain Belknap had used the site as location for a summer range cow-camp and established an open-range cattle operation. When Cody acquired the property he ordered the movement of Nebraska and South Dakota cattle to Wyoming. This new herd carried the T E brand. The late 1890s were relatively prosperous years for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and he used some of the profits to accumulate lands which were added to the T E holdings. Eventually Cody held around eight thousand acres of private land for grazing operations and ran about a thousand head of cattle. He also operated free dude ranch, pack horse camping trips, and big game hunting business at and from the T E Ranch. In his spacious and comfortable ranch house he entertained notable guests from Europe and America.

The UXU Ranch is an historic dude ranch occupying lands leased from the Shoshone National Forest along U.S. Highway 14-16-20 in Park County, Wyoming. The 18 buildings and structures (10 buildings and one structure of which are contributing to its significance) are laid out in typical rustic dude ranch style: a centrally-located grand lodge surrounded by guest cabins and support buildings. The buildings evolved over a period of years from the late 1800s through the 1930s. The ranch was originally a sawmill, in operation by at least 1898. It was known as the Freeman Sawmill by May of 1927. In February 1929 Bronson Case ''Bob'' Rumsey secured the first permit from the Shoshone National Forest for the UXU to operate as a dude ranch. The only two buildings on the site at this time were the old sawmill headquarters and the original main lodge. The rest of the dude ranch was made up of small tent cabins. Many of the guest cabins and the current grand lodge were built during the late 1920s and 1930s from lumber processed on the site. The UXU Ranch remains one of the most intact examples of historic dude ranches along the Yellowstone Highway (U.S. Highway 14-16-20) within the Shoshone National Forest. During its period of significance between 1929 and 1950, it reflected the growing mobility and affluence of the American public, in its quest for new recreational opportunities and experiences.

The Wapiti Ranger Station, which is located in the Shoshone National Forest about 30 miles west of Cody, Wyoming, was built in 1903. It was the first ranger station constructed in the United States at federal expense. It was also located in the first national forest reserve which was established by President Benjamin Harrison in 1891. The Wapiti Ranger Station was built as a supervisory ranger station for the Shoshone division of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve.