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The museum in Savery
is closed
for the season
We will reopen
Memorial Day Weekend
Please call 303-388-7788
if you need help
or to reserve the museum.
The Outlaw Stop
in Baggs is CLOSED
foro the season
 
 Jim Baker Cabin

This well-known building housed one of the last true mountain men of the American West. In 1873, Jim Baker tired of "big city" life near Denver and built this cabin by hand at age 55.  The home now sits about one mile from its original site.  It was one of the only permanent buildings in a land inhabited mostly by the transient Shoshone and Arapaho.  

In addition to housing Baker's family, the cabin served as a trading post.  Right before the Meeker Massacre, it acted as a fort for valley settlers, and a third story was added as a lookout.  Inside the cabin, visitors can see a buffalo hide bull boat, a rope bed, a bearskin, and other Jim Baker artifacts.

The cabin was housed for almost 60 years in Frontier Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming before being relocated here in 1976. Jim Baker died in 1898 and is buried nearby in the Baker Cemetery along with many of his family members and decendents.  The Madeline House, also located at the museum, belonged to his daughter Madeline Baker Adams.

*For more information on the life of Jim Baker, view the Jim Baker Biography. 

Little Snake River Museum
"Preserving our History for the Valley's Future"
 
Savery, Wyoming
Open daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (seasonal)
307-383-7262
The Outlaw Stop in Baggs is open Friday-Sunday.
 

lsrmuseum@dteworld.com

Life and Times
will resume in
 January at the
Ed Center
in Baggs

Life & Times

September 26th

Topic:

Back to School

Dinner at 5:00

discussion after

In Savery at the museum


Fall Festival

October 8th 

2:00-4:00

Games

Crafts

Mega Slingshot

Sweets

Prizes

Fun for the whole family