Lost Cabin is an

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in Fremont County,

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, United States.

History

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called Lost Cabin was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1966. The community received its name from a pioneer incident in which a party of prospectors escaped from Indians, only to find later their cabins had disappeared from the site.

In popular culture

In his poem ''The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz'', Dana Gioia describes how his great-grandfather, a

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immigrant from

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, worked as a

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cow-puncher and was later murdered by a disgruntled and

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patron while working as a saloon keeper at Lost Cabin in 1910. John Zheng (2021), ''Conversations with Dana Gioia'',

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Press. Pages 234-238.

References

Unincorporated communities in Fremont County, Wyoming {{Wyoming-geo-stub