Map / Of / Shoshone / [ Wind River ] / Indian Reservation / Wyoming / To Be Opened For Settlement June 15th, 1906. This item is unavailable.Map / Of / Shoshone / [ Wind River ] / Indian Reservation / Wyoming / To Be Opened For Settlement June 15th, 1906

Single sheet, 15.75 x 22", printed on one side. _____ Rolled for distribution and subsequently slightly pressed creating faint vertical bend lines. _____ A note in the lower left corner decrees that "All this portion south of Wind River / to Popo Agie retained by Indians. / Remainder to be opened for settlement. " _____ In anticipation of the upcoming land sale this updated map has subtle differences from that of 1905. _____ While the sheet is larger, the map itself is roughly the same size. _____ The identification of political and geographic features is much clearer. _____ The rudimentary roads crossing the country from north to south on the earlier map are upgraded (at least on paper) to stage coach and wagon roads. _____ A couple of apparent ranches along the Wind River are now labeled. _____ E. W. Glafcke served in the U. S. Geological Survey and was responsible for surveying portions of the Bighorn Mountains. _____ His work here depicts the reservation, north of Lander, which comprises a large portion of Fremont County in excellent topographical detail. _____ It runs from Thermopolis in the northeast westward along the Owl Creek to Washakie Needles then south to the Wind River and southeast to St. _____ Stephens. _____ Northwest of Lander, but apparently off the reservation, Fort Washakie and the Shoshone Agency and the Arapahoe Sub-Agency to the northeast are located. _____ The earlier "Proposed town site of Shoshone" has evolved to the "New Town of Shoshoni (sic)". _____ Includes the still only proposed extension of the Chicago & North Western Railway line from Lander northeast to the proposed town of Shoshone. _____ This line follows the west bank of the Popo Agie River. _____ Still also a pipe-dream is a government canal from the Wind River, apparently the southern border of the reservation, northeast through the heart of the tribal lands. _____ This would serve a large area of "250,000 Acres / of / Irrigable Land. _____ " For an excellent review of the entire, convoluted debacle we suggest WyoHistory.org's article "The Tribes Sell Off More Land: the 1905 Agreement. _____ " We suspect all these proposed improvements were not for the benefit of resident Natives but for potential White settlement. _____.…