Cunningham Cabin: The Jackson Hole Homestead

The Cunningham Cabin, built around eighteen eighty-five by Pierce Cunningham, is one of the oldest surviving homestead structures in Jackson Hole. Cunningham was among the first wave of settlers who arrived in the valley after the Homestead Act opened Wyoming Territory, and he built his cabin in the classic log-and-mud-chinking style of the frontier West. The site is also famous for a violent episode from eighteen ninety-three, when a posse of ranchers and deputies tracked two suspected horse thieves to a cabin near here and killed them both, an episode known locally as the Cunningham Cabin fight.

Whether the men were guilty was never established in court. Today the original cabin stands in an open sagebrush flat with an unobstructed view of the Teton Range, managed by the National Park Service as a walk-in historic site.