Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (OWSA)

Digital Collection Features

Metal Detector Survey in progress at the Wagon Box Fight between Sheridan and Buffalo, Wyoming. All artifacts found during the survey were mapped in place so their spatial context could be examined in terms of the entire battlefield.

 

Steel arrow points shot at the military fortification during the Wagon Box Fight.

 

 

 


Base of the blacksmith's forge recorded at Seminoe's Trading Post on the Oregon Trail near Devil's Gate in 2001. Large quantities of ingot iron and other scrap metal were found around this hearth.

 

Sampling of the tobacco pipes recovered from the archaeological investigations Seminoe's Trading Post on the Oregon Trail near Devil's Gate in 2001. Similar varieties of pipes have been recovered from other historic sites in Wyoming from the same time period, including Rechard's Trading Post near Casper and Fort Laramie National Historic Site near Torrington.