“Take a bath at the Star Plunge . . . Cures Rheumatism, Paralysis, Blood and Skin Diseases, Stomach Trouble, etc.”

                                Yellowstone Highway in Wyoming and Colorado, 1916.

The first alignment of the Yellowstone Highway passed through Lost Cabin, bypassing Shoshoni and Wind River Canyon. An alternate route before the completion of the Wind River Canyon Road in 1924 was via Birdseye Pass, east of the canyon.

Yellowstone Highway in Wyoming and Colorado, 1916

Yellowstone Highway in Wyoming and Colorado, 1916.

Shoshoni, looking east along the Yellowstone Highway. The building at the extreme right is now the Yellowstone Drug Store, famous for their malts and milk shakes.